New Mexico Reports & Other Publications
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The New Mexico Wildlife Corridors Action Plan
Cramer, P., J.L. Cartron, K. Calhoun., J. Gagnon, M. Haverland, M. Watson, S. Cushman, H.Y. Wan, J. Kutz, J. Romero, T. Brennan., J. Walther, C. Loberger, H. Nelson, T. Botkin, and J. Hirsch. 2022. The New Mexico Wildlife Corridors Action Plan. New Mexico Department of Transportation and New Mexico Department of Game & Fish. 756 pages. https://wildlifeactionplan.nmdotprojects.org/
The approach to developing the Action Plan was science-driven and two-pronged, with a focus on identifying (1) the top WVC hotpots in the state, representing the areas of greatest concern in terms of public safety, and (2) the top wildlife corridors intersecting high-traffic volume roads, representing conflict areas that are a mitigation priority for helping individual animals and wildlife populations for moving across the landscape. The Wildlife Corridors Act identifies by name six large focal species, all mammals, whose movements across the landscape are disrupted by roads and road traffic while at the same time posing a threat to the traveling public. These six large mammals are the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), elk (Cervus canadensis), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), black bear (Ursus americanus), and cougar (Puma concolor) (also known as mountain lion or puma). They represent the main focus of all the analyses and modeling in the Action Plan.
New Mexico State Action Plan for
Implementation of the Department of Interior Secretarial Order 3362: “Improving Habitat Quality in Western Big-Game Winter Range and Migration Corridors”
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