From Gabby Saunders of Wildlands Network to all wildlands partners, We are excited to announce that the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act, along $300 million in dedicated funding for wildlife crossings, has passed the House floor on July 2 as part of a stimulus package with bipartisan support. To elevate this huge win for wildlife, and […]
Source: Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act Passes – Rewilding
Here is a new video we’re making available via YouTube to show some of wildlife that need to move to and from Sandia Moutain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGKrCqWP34
Help protect this area as a wildlife corridor, its already there!
Send your comments before April 16th to: wildlife.corridors@state.nm.us to inform the Wildlife Corridors Act, which is seeking public comments for a State wildlife corridor action plan.
Protect the Crest of Montezuma wildlife corridor!
The light green shaded area is the safest path for wildlife to and from Sandia Mtn.
From: Pathways: Wildlife Corridors of NM, an all volunteer, non-profit organization.
Pathways vision is to see the mountains of New Mexico connected with protected
passage for wildlife of all kinds.
Sandia Mountain is ringed with development – the city of Albuquerque, freeways and subdivisions. There is only one narrow opening to and from the remaining mountain at the North East corner between Placitas and La Madera. Without roads and official trails, this rugged area is designated non-motorized travel within the Forest Service portion. On the Crest of Montezuma, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, official trails and uses of all sorts are being proposed. These uses are not a problem with official oversight, but these Federal agencies do not have funding for law enforcement personnel. Without a ranger at the trail head and on the trails we will see the spider webbing of trails, target shooting and trash – plus the increased access for illegal trapping and poaching of wildlife.
Won’t you help protect Sandia Mountain and keep it connected to the other mountains of New Mexico for the safe passage of wildlife? Let officials know that you want this area, the last of its kind, protected from illegal activity and the current laws enforced. Thank you for caring about the life of your mountain! share the link here: Crest of Montezuma
The light green shaded area is the safest path for wildlife to and from Sandia Mtn.
Here is an example of what can happen when people put their money where their mouth is. If AZ can do it, NM can do it!
Voter-approved wildlife crossing part of Oracle Road widening.
People gotta drive, animals gotta move! But road-kill, no gotta happen.
One of the priority wildlife passages in the Rocky Mts. is highlighted here in this NY Times piece:
Jaguar in northern Mexico
Read the lengthly article, with lots of gorgeous photos, here:
Seeking justice for Corazón: jaguar killings test the conservation movement in Mexico.
As iconic and well loved as the Jaguar is in Mexico, there are still those who would wantonly kill them. As the article points out however, in this case it could make the social contract with the jaguar in Mexico even stronger.
A great article in “Outside” magazine was sent to me recently:
The Day We Set the Colorado River Free | Nature | OutsideOnline.com.
about how the Colorado river was released from its last dam so that it could flow all the way to the ocean in the Gulf of California. This has not happened but rarely since 1966 when the Glen Canyon dam was built to create Lake Powell.
Hopes are for more releases in the next 5 years to maintain some riparian restoration efforts in the delta. As water supplies tighten up in the Southwest, and as Big Business and Big Decisions continue to be made in the interest of money and people and people with money, the land itself is busy making its own decisions. Thank you for looking up and away from human business toward the actual life which supports it all. (and saying), “wait, we need rivers to flow to the Ocean for about a million reasons, and a million more we don’t even know yet.”
Read this timely article by Laura Paskus here:
LAST EXIT: Wildlife dies by the thousands on NM’s highways.
Thanks Laura for bringing this issue to light in the Reporter; as people become aware of the dangers to wildlife in these “pinch points”, we have a chance to change history for the better, for animals and ourselves.
Deer tracks
This weekend Pathways will be helping with another wildlife track and sign course with professional tracker,
Casey McFarland. Read some of the history of this course here: History | Tracker Certification.
There is still room for a couple more people, so contact Casey directly; email: ofthefarland@yahoo.com and take advantage of this great opportunity to see another side of animal, bird and insect life here in NM.
Pathways: Wildlife Corridors of New Mexico 
Written by pcallen
on March 31, 2020
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