Scanning the sagebrush-covered horizon to the snow-capped peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I hope to spot a pronghorn ‘antelope’—a unique North American mammal, but not actually related to the African antelope. The views here on the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico are expansive and only interrupted by the occasional extinct lava dome covered in pines. Herds of hooved animals migrated across these landscapes since time immemorial, before people-built fences and roads, and millennia before the political border line was drawn between New Mexico and Colorado.
The Hard Work of Restoring Wildlife Corridors in New Mexico
The Hard Work of Restoring Wildlife Corridors in New Mexico