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October 20, 2026

Blog: A Conversation With New Mexico Senator Peter Wirth | Extended Interview

Executive Director Mark Allison and Rivers and Waters Program Director Tricia Snyder sat down with Senator Peter Wirth to talk…

October 19, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: As Wolf Awareness Week Begins, New Mexico Wild Takes Lobo Fight to Court and Calls on Public to Contact Congress

As Wolf Awareness Week begins, October 18th–24th, New Mexico Wild is defending the Mexican gray wolf in federal court and…

September 7, 2026

Blog: New Mexico’s Wild Forests Are Texas’s Wild Forests, Too

More than 95 percent of Texas is privately owned. West Texas has no national forests. For many of us in…

September 4, 2026

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Mexico Wild and Conservation Partners Step In to Host Six Public Hearings Statewide After Forest Service Refuses to Hold Any Community Meetings on Roadless Rule Rescission

New Mexico Wild is partnering with organizations across the state to host six People’s Public Hearings, giving New Mexicans a…

August 27, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Mexican Gray Wolves Being Moved and Killed for Problem Grazing Operations

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife has recently authorized the removal of two highly-imperiled Mexican gray wolves from grazing allotments that…

August 20, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Wild Mobilizes Statewide as Federal Government Opens Comment Period on Rule That Protects 1.6 Million Acres of NM’s Wild Forests from Mining, Logging, and Road-Building

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open the door to mining, drilling, and logging in New Mexico’s last unroaded forests, threatening…

August 3, 2026

Blog: Delays in the Colorado River Negotiations are Bad News for the Rio Grande

When we talk about rivers in New Mexico, it’s no surprise that many people think first of the Rio Grande.…

July 31, 2026

Blog: 2026 Ranger Season

Our 2026 Wilderness Ranger season has begun! This year, 12 Wilderness Rangers — half returners, half brand new — are…

July 30, 2026

MEDIA STATEMENT: New Mexico Wild Statement on Sandia Pueblo Transfer Act Proposal

For more than two decades, the 2003 T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act has stood as a compromise, a…

July 30, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans File Comments on Trump Administration Plan to Open Greater Chaco Landscape to Drilling

Yesterday, the Trump administration concluded its 14-day public comment period on the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Draft Environmental Assessment,…

July 16, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Trump Administration Moves One Step Closer to Revoking Chaco Canyon Protections, Ignoring the Wishes of Pueblo People and the Broader Public

Yesterday, the Trump administration began a 14-day public comment period on the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Draft Environmental Assessment as…

July 15, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: As Agencies Pursue Mexican Wolf Downlisting, Coalition Urges New Mexico to Close Protection Gaps

As federal and state wildlife agencies prepare to pursue downlisting of Mexican gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act, a…