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New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

Website
http://www.nmwild.org
Contact Name
Tisha Broska
Contact Email
tisha@antispamnmwild.org
Location
Albuquerque, NM

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is dedicated to the protection, restoration and continued enjoyment of Wilderness and wild public lands in New Mexico. 

Our grassroots organizing efforts promote productive collaboration among the many diverse communities of New Mexico to ensure our land, wildlife and water are preserved.

Project Update

Doña Ana County Wilderness Bill Introduced!
September 17, 2009
 
Sportsmen, business owners, conservationists, local elected officials and other community members hailed the introduction today of The Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks Wilderness Act, by Senator Jeff Bingaman and Senator Tom Udall. The measure will protect nearly 400,000 acres of public land in Dona Ana County, by designating 271,050 acres as wilderness and creating a 109,600-acre National Conservation Area around the Organ and Doña Ana Mountains and parts of Broad Canyon.

"We applaud Senators Bingaman and Udall for their dedication to ensuring that more of New Mexico's beloved wild places will be around for our children's children to use and enjoy," said Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima. "Their bill follows years of discussion and collaboration with community members with many different interests and concerns."

Bonnie Burn, President of the League of Women Voters, added, "We all share the goal of protecting Doña Ana County's unique and precious open areas which add so much to our quality of life."

"This important conservation bill comes as the nation celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Wilderness Act," said Stephen Capra, executive director of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. "That broadly backed measure allowed citizens to add other worthy wild places to our preservation system. It is fitting that it will help us today protect such beloved area icons as the Organ Mountains and Broad Canyon."