New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

10/25/2026

Nature-based solutions can deliver real benefits for New Mexico’s water future, but success depends on action.

A new report recommends the state:
✍️ Integrate nature-based solutions into state planning
💰 Expand funding opportunities
👷 Invest in job training & workforce development
🤝 Build stronger partnerships

When policy, planning, and community priorities align, we can provide more economic, environmental and public safety benefits to New Mexico communities. Learn more at: https://watercantwait.org/resources/

10/23/2026

Jim O’Donnell, who penned our river guide Wild Waters: Passport to New Mexico’s Rivers, takes you deep into Mills Canyon for New Mexico Magazine, where the Canadian River has carved a thousand-foot world of sandstone, cottonwoods, and birdsong beneath the eastern plains. Our Executive Director, Mark Allison, weighs in on why this river corridor, one New Mexico Wild has long worked to protect, matters so much.

Read it all here: https://www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/mills-canyon/

📸: Jim O'Donnell

10/23/2026

The only wild Mexican gray wolves in the United States live right here in New Mexico and Arizona, and the federal government has labeled them “nonessential” to the species’ survival. Alongside our partners, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, we asked a federal appeals court last week to overturn that designation and give the lobo the protections it needs. While we wait on the court’s decision, Congress needs to hear from you.

Add your name to keep the lobo protected until it has truly recovered, and we’ll send you a free Wolves Belong sticker as thanks: https://ow.ly/uCSC5100haX

10/22/2026

Our staff attorney, Sally Paez, sat down with KOB 4 to talk about what’s at stake for the lobo as Washington weighs stripping its endangered species protections. As she put it, without those protections, “we really risk all of this effort and time” spent bringing this iconic wolf back.

Watch the full story:

Mexican gray wolves may soon be taken off the endangered species list – a move with support from some ranchers and concern from advocates.

10/21/2026

In 1987, the upper Rio Grande near Taos ran above 8,000 cubic feet per second. This July it was down to 137. The latest installment of The Santa Fe New Mexican's excellent Treading Water series follows the longtime river guides who watched the river change and became its advocates.

Read it here:
https://ow.ly/STqj50ZZT3X

10/21/2026

👋 Missed our October Volunteer Newsletter? It’s packed with trail work updates from our Wilderness Rangers, a last call for Boo at the Zoo volunteers this Saturday, BLM advisory council nominations due Oct. 26, and an invitation to our Dec. 10 holiday party.

👉 Read it here: https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/EA/EA019/1/113865/ryepzMv0tos4DH-cwyOqaAuVgsqagdmUH4nv_n15DJD_archive?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=volunteer&utm_content=newsletter

10/20/2026

It's Wolf Awareness Week, and New Mexico's own lobo needs us. A generous supporter will match every gift to New Mexico Wild, dollar for dollar, up to $12,000. Double your impact for the lobo today.

🐾 Click here: https://secure.everyaction.com/KgN0wSCja0aZ1yfbbqxAtg2?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Lobos&utm_content=donate&source=doublehowl_fb

10/19/2026

New Mexicans have always claimed the lobo as our own, and after nearly 30 years of hard-won recovery work to bring it back from the brink of extinction, the Mexican gray wolf is finally gaining ground in the wild. But now, Washington wants to pull its Endangered Species Act protections before the job is done. This Wolf Awareness Week, help us send at least 750 letters to Congress and stand up for the wolf that belongs in New Mexico. Sign on, and we’ll send you a free Wolves Belong sticker as thanks: https://ow.ly/vCWF50ZZ9bR

10/18/2026

We’re kicking off Wolf Awareness Week today! In New Mexico, that means celebrating our wolf: the lobo. Sign our petition to keep the endangered Mexican gray wolf’s protections in place while it fully recovers as a subspecies. We’ll send you a free Wolves Belong sticker as thanks. Link here: https://ow.ly/oBCo50ZYCtz

10/16/2026

➡️ On Monday evening in Los Alamos, join Bjorn Fredrickson, our Conservation Director, for a presentation on Wild Waters: Passport to New Mexico's Rivers, our new guide to 42 of the state's most spectacular river segments. From the Rio Chama to the wild Gila, hear the stories behind these waters, why they matter, and how you can help protect them.

📍Los Alamos, Oct. 19, 6:30 pm at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center

Details at the Events link in our bio!