The Department offers numerous educational opportunities, including detailed Species Information and Wildlife Trunks for teachers.
Species Information
Wildlife Notes
Wildlife Notes offer educational PDF’s on the wide variety of species that call New Mexico home. Select from the drop-down menus to download these printable pages to your local computer.
Brochures and Links
Education Trunks
Critter Boxes
Wildlife critter boxes on a variety of species are available for loan to educators. Critter boxes often contain skulls, skeletal parts such as antlers, horns, etc., hides, scat, tracks, videos, children’s literature and a Teachers Guide. Contact Storm or Dennis for information on the following critter boxes:
- Bear
- Bighorn
- Bosque
- Desert Wildlife
- Elk
- Forest Carnivores
- Grasslands
- Predator-Prey
- Rocky Mountain Wildlife
- Track Mold
- Wolf
- Big game scoring
- Bird
- Bird (Early Education)
- Birding
- Fur samples
- General Wildlife
- Jaguar
- Owl Pellet Kit
- Small mammal trapping & monitoring
- Wildlife (Early Education)

Coloring Books
New Mexico Wildlife Coloring Books: Written at about the 5th-grade reading level, the coloring books include professional black-line art of New Mexico wildlife and habitats along with the state map locator for each species.


Storm Usrey
Conservation Education Coordinator
Phone# 505-222-4740
Stormw.Usrey@state.nm.us
Dennis Segura
Sport Fishing / Aquatic Resources Education Coordinator
Phone# 505-222-4727
Dennis.Segura@state.nm.us