New Mexico

The Pinyon Paradox

Steering pinyon jays from decline requires better knowing and tending one of the American West’s most unappreciated woodlands.

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The brook trout, a species native to the eastern United States, made its way across the west in the hands of settlers looking to recreate a small, living piece of their adopted homeland. Photograph by Nick Hawkins
The Tale of the Trojan Trout

Can the introduction of a modified invader save the West’s native fish?

Sign designating the National Wild and Scenic section of the Rio Chama.
A River’s Right to Flow

Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the view of water as a human commodity, and fighting to keep this precious resource in the ecosystems it sustains. Can the same approach work in the arid Southwest?

Mexican wolf "M1296" walks off a sedative after being processed and released back into the field during a January 2016 annual Mexican wolf count based out of Alpine, Arizona. After receiving vaccinations and a new GPS collar, M1296 was reacquainted with his mate not far from where he was initially captured. Photograph by Christina Selby
Into the Wild

North America’s rarest wolf subspecies is finally reclaiming its native territory in the Southwest, thanks in part to a fostering program that places captive-born pups into wild dens.