2024 Share with Wildlife Projects

Category Title
Education Porcupine’s perch – Gaining perspective on Species of Greatest Conservation Need (Bosque School)
Education Wildlife wonders at the park (Asombro Institute for Science Education)
Research Filling in key knowledge gaps in the ecology of grassland birds that winter in New Mexico (Bird Conservancy of the Rockies)
Research Development of a GT-seq SNP panel for genetic monitoring of peppered chub (UNM)
Research Updated status and distribution of the northern leopard frog in New Mexico (Herpetological Conservation, LLC)
Research Inferring brown-capped rosy-finch demography and breeding distribution trends from long-term wintering data in New Mexico (NMSU)
Research Post-wildfire habitat use by the Peñasco least chipmunk (NMSU)
Habitat Identifying and mapping climatically stable macro- and micro-refugia in New Mexico (USFS)
Wildlife Rehabilitation Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Carlsbad
Wildlife Rehabilitation New Mexico Wildlife Center, Española

Highlighted Report

Virginia Tech, with support from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, conducted a survey of wildlife viewers in New Mexico. Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. The final report describing results of this survey provides agencies with valuable information about wildlife viewers’ behaviors, experiences, perceptions, needs, and preferences. This information is essential for more meaningful and substantive engagement by state agencies with this often underserved constituency.

Reports

2023

An eDNA-based survey of the distributions of Rio Grande Sucker and Rio Grande Chub in the Upper Rio Grande, Rio Chama, and Mimbres basins – Final report, 2022

Assessing the effects of forest management and wildfire on populations of New Mexico's endemic salamanders – Interim report, 2022

Connecting students to wildlife and habitats in New Mexico and Wildlife rehabilitation – New Mexico Wildlife Center

Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

Engaging future conservation leaders: Audubon’s Outdoor Field Science Program – Audubon Southwest

Identifying habitat usage by New Mexico populations of Rio Grande chub and Rio Grande sucker and its effect on presence and relative abundance of both species – American Southwest Ichthyological Researchers, LLC

New Mexico Wildlife Wonders: A 2nd grade lesson module -- Asombro Institute for Science Education

Pecos pupfish genomics Final Report, 2022

Pinyon jay surveys in the Gila National Forest – Kristine Johnson

Pinyon jay surveys in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico – Final report, 2022

Population genomics of Pecos pupfish – Stephen J. Amish

Post-wildfire habitat use by the Peñasco least chipmunk – Jennifer Frey

Snake country survival guide – Advocates for Snake Preservation

The Bosque Education Guide and New Mexico STEM Ready Science Standards – Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center

Wildlife and wildland fire interactions in the southwest – Environmental Education Association of New Mexico

American mink (Vison vison) habitat and population survey in northern NM – Marty Peale

An eDNA-based survey of the distributions of Rio Grande sucker and Rio Grande chub in the upper Rio Grande and Rio Chama basins – Tommy Franklin

Assessing the effects of forest management and wildfire on populations of New Mexico’s endemic salamanders – Nancy Karraker

Connecting students to wildlife and habitats in New Mexico/Wildlife rehabilitation – New Mexico Wildlife Center

Engaging future conservation leaders: Audubon’s Outdoor Field Science Program – Audubon New Mexico

Pinyon jay surveys in the Gila National Forest – Kristine Johnson

Seasonal abundance, population structure, and diet of long-nosed bats in southwestern New Mexico in relation to contemporaneous food availability – Kathryn Stoner

Status and distribution of terrestrial snails in southwest New Mexico – Eric Wallace

The Bosque Education Guide and New Mexico STEM Ready Science Standards – Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center

Wildlife Rescue Inc. of New Mexico

Aquatic habitat connectivity assessment for the Santa Fe National Forest – Defenders of Wildlife

Become a riparian habitat steward: creating the next generation of land, water, and wildlife protectors – River Source Inc.

Conservation genomic assessment of western peripheral populations of the least shrew (Cryptotis parva) – Andrew Hope

Engaging future conservation leaders: Audubon’s Outdoor Field Science Program – Audubon New Mexico

Full-season productivity and habitat associations of gray vireos – Silas Fischer

Life history and activity budget of the Peñasco least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus atristriatus) – Fiona McKibben

NM wildlife data jam: K-8 students collecting, analyzing, and communicating data – Asombro Institute for Science Education

Population status and genetics of two Bell's vireo subspecies in New Mexico - Andy Johnson

SMNHC educating ecosystem explorers and fieldwork – Sandia Mountain Natural History Center

Status and distribution of terrestrial snails in southwest New Mexico – Eric Wallace

Status and limiting factors for the Arizona montane vole in New Mexico – Jennifer Frey

Status assessment of the Arizona black rattlesnake Crotalus cerberus in New Mexico – Bruce Christman

The Bosque Education Guide and New Mexico STEM Ready! Science Standards – Friends of the Valle de Oro NWR

Wildlife rehabilitation/Connecting students to wildlife and habitats in New Mexico – New Mexico Wildlife Center

Wildlife Rescue Inc. of New Mexico

BEMP fauna floodplains and fieldwork - Alex Levine

Bendire's thrasher nest survival and juvenile survival in relation to land management in New Mexico - Martha Desmond

Connecting students to wildlife and habitats in New Mexico and Wildlife rehabilitation - New Mexico Wildlife Center

Creating the next generation of riparian habitat stewards - River Source

Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation - Samantha Uhrig

Distribution and habitat selection by the Peñasco least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus atristriatus) – Fiona McKibben and Jennifer Frey

Establishing viable imperiled springsnail refuge populations at the Albuquerque BioPark Conservation Facility NM - Dustin Long and Kathy Lang

Evaluation of the risk of novel pathogen transmission via riparian restoration on the Mimbres River of southwestern NM - Brad Johnson and Jason Fritzler

Full-season productivity and habitat associations for gray vireos - Silas Fischer

Genetic status-assessment of Chihuahua chub in the Mimbres basin - Megan Osborne

Status assessment of the Arizona black rattlesnake in New Mexico - Bruce Christman

Wildlife Rescue Inc. of New Mexico - Penny Elliston

Bendire’s thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) nest survival and juvenile condition and survival in relation to land management in New Mexico - Martha Desmond

Connecting students to wildlife and habitats in New Mexico / Wildlife rehabilitation - New Mexico Wildlife Center

Demographic and genetic status of a reintroduced river otter population in north-central New Mexico - John Cox

Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation - Samantha Uhrig

Distribution of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in New Mexico - Bruce Christman

Distribution, abundance, and habitat selection by the Peñasco least chipmunk (Tamias minimus atristriatus) revealed by N-mixture models - Jennifer Frey

Early detection of Pd in New Mexico - Jenny Hathaway

Science interns: Increasing students’ knowledge of NM wildlife - Asombro Institute

Surveys for western river cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) in the Pecos River drainage and its tributaries - Ivana Mali

Wildlife Rescue Incorporated of New Mexico - Penny Elliston

Assuring return of healthy native wildlife to the wild - Wildlife Rescue Inc of New Mexico

Building water literacy through Playa and River Festivals in New Mexico - Ogallala Commons

Connecting youth in headwaters communities with watershed science and stewardship - Truchas Chapter Trout Unlimited

eDNA detection of invaders and fish Species of Greatest Conservation Need In lower Pecos River system - Matthew Barnes

Evaluation of the distribution and conservation status of the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) in southwest New Mexico - Tom Giermakowski

Manzano Mountains raptor migration and wildlife education project - HawkWatch International

Phase II: Demography of western river cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) population within the Black River drainage - Ivana Mali

Population size estimation of breeding red-faced and Grace's warblers in pine woodlands of New Mexico - Envirological Services

White-tailed ptarmigan and alpine willow distribution in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains New Mexico - Don Wolfe

Wildlife education and rehabilitation - New Mexico Wildlife Center

2016 population size estimation of breeding red-faced and Grace's warblers in pine woodlands of New Mexico - Envirological Services

Development of environmental DNA markers for detection of Rio Grande chub (Gila pandora) and Rio Grande sucker (Catostomus plebeius) in New Mexico streams – Carter Kruse

Investigating natural defenses in New Mexico bats - Jennifer Hathaway

Population genetics of a plethodontid salamander endemic to New Mexico - Sacramento Mountain salamander – Megan Osborne

Survey for the Penasco least chipmunk (Tamias minimus atristriatus) - Jennifer Frey

Survey of western river cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) in New Mexico within the Black River drainage - Ivana Mali

Threats and trends of Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus) in the Gila region 2016 – Tom Giermakowski

Wildlife education and rehabilitation - New Mexico Wildlife Center

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