Examination of New Mexico Public Lands in regards to the Wild Horse Act (NMSA 77-18-5, 2007) 109°0'0"W 108°0'0"W 107°0'0"W 106°0'0"W 105°0'0"W 104°0'0"W 103°0'0"W
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37°0'0"N Sugarite Canyon State Park
87 84 Edward Sargent Wildlife Management Area ¤£ Navajo Axtell ¤£ Rio De Los Pinos Wildlife Area Punche Valley WHA Jicarilla Raton Unknown State Land (OID 1119) ¤£64 Carracas Mesa WHA 5 Acres:160 ¤£84 Urraca Wildlife Management Area 64 Unknown State Land (OID 1116) William A. Humphries Wildlife Management Area ¤£ Jackson Lake Wildlife Management Area Aztec Acres: 477 64 ¤£ 5 87 Navajo Lake State Park ¤£285 ¤£ ¤£64 ¤£85 5Farmington Ancones SAN JUA Phase I (Unknown State Land; OID 1121) N R IVER £64 Tierra Amarilla ¤ 5 Acres: 2220 Heron Lake State Park Red River State Hatchery
Elliott Barker Wildlife Management Area ¤£64 Clayton Lake State Park 25 Colfax §¨¦ ¤£64 El Vado Lake State Park Rio Chama Wildlife Management Area Tres Piedras WMA ¤£64 Jarita Mesa WHT Vallecitos Refuge (OID 1120) Cimarron Canyon State Park ¤£64 Acres: 132 Union Eagle Nest Lake State Park Clayton San Juan Rio Arriba Taos ¤£87 Colin Neblett Wildlife Management Area 5 ¤£64 ¤£87
Mesa de las Viegas WHT (Inactive)
85 ¤£ £56 C 5 ¤ H Taos A Mesa Montosa (Inactive) C
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R Coyote Creek State Park (OID 1081) Acres: 456
R IO C H A Charette Lake Fishing Area M A ¤£491 ¤£550
Circle A Ranch 36°0'0"N Mora Wagon Mound Wildlife Management Area Espanola 36°0'0"N Chicoma WHT (Inactive) 5 Unknown State Land (OID 1117) Mora Acres: 7306 5 ¤£85 Bluebird WMA
Morphy Lake State Park Harding Fenton Lake State Park 5 Hyde Memorial State Park (OID 1105) s Alamos Lo Los Alamos Acres: 365 Mosquero San Deigo WHT (Inactive) ¤£84 5
Unknown Park (OID 490) Acres: 271 Bert Clancy Fishing Area (pecos Estates) Dome WBT (Inactive)
Caja WHT 25 Sandoval Santa Fe Unknown Land (Possibly Private; OID 611) §¨¦ 5 Acres: 208 Storrie Lake State Park ¤£84 Las Vegas San Miguel ¤£285 Unknown Park (OID 527) 5 Acres: 345 «¬14 84 McKinley ¤£ ¤£85 5 Gallup Santa Fe ¤£285
85 ¤£ Conchas Lake State Park ¤£54 550 ¤£ Cerrillos Hills State Park Ute Lake State Park Bluewater Lake State Park (OID 1098) CA N Acres: 2244 A D I AN R Marquez Wildlife Management Area IVER R Placitas IO Coronado Historic Site P 5 U Rio Rancho 5 Silva Tract E Bernalillo R 5 C O Villanueva State Park Tucumcari Lake 40 «¬14 «¬41 ¤£285 §¨¦ 5 Tucumcari
Grants 84 85 ¤£ 5 Water Canyon Wildlife Area ¤£ Quay
Rio Grande Nature Center 5 ¤£54 §¨¦40 35°0'0"N Albuquerque Santa Rosa Lake State Park 35°0'0"N Bernalillo
Santa Rosa ¤£54 Cibola 5 Guadalupe
54 Los Lunas ¤£ 5 «¬41 Estancia E 5 D N 84 A ¤£ R Valencia
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I R Torrance ¤£60 Sumner Lake State Park Rio Abajo Curry 285 ¤£ £285 Belen Waterfowl Management Area Manzano Mountains State Park (OID 909) ¤ 60 Acres: 188 ¤£ ¤£60 Casa Colorada Waterfowl Area
Fort Sumner Clovis 854 ¤£60 ¤£ 5 ¤£84 ¤£60 70 84 25 ¤£ ¤£ §¨¦ £54 60 ¤ Bernardo Waterfowl Management Area ¤£
De Baca
La Joya Waterfowl Management Area
Oasis State Park
¤£60 Portales 5 ¤£70 ¤£285 Claudell Prairie Chicken Area Liberty Prairie Chicken Area
Unknown Bordo Atravesado WHA
Socorro Roosevelt 34°0'0"N P 5 E C Socorro O 34°0'0"N S R
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Horse Springs - Phase I (OID 1115) Acres: 5001 ¤£380 Catron
Lincoln ¤£54
Marshall Farmers Home Prairie Chicken Area Gallinas Wells Prairie Chicken Area
285 Reserve ¤£ Black Hills Prairie Chicken Area North Bluitt Prairie Chicken Area 5 Gallinas Wells Bledsoe Prairie Chicken Area ¤£70 East Bluit Carrizozo Milnesand Sandhill Prairie Conservation Area 5 Crossroads Prairie Chicken Area Antelope Flats South Bluitt Prairie Chicken Area Crossroads Prairie Chicken Area (PCA) ¤£180 ¤£380
Little Dipper Crossroads
Wayside 380 Godfrey Hills WHA ¤£
¤£70 Roswell 70 Ruidoso ¤£ ¤£380 5 Chaves 5 Bottomless Lakes State Park
¤£380
Elephant Butte Lake State Park Tatum Heart Bar Wildlife Management Area ¤£54 ¤£180 Truth or Consequences 5 ¤£285 ¤£70 ¤£85 Sierra
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E V I 33°0'0"N R Lovington A Double E WMA IL ¤£70 5 G ¤£82 ¤£82 Iron Bridge ¤£82 Caballo Lake State Park Alamogordo Huey Wildlife Area Bear Canyon Lake (and Dam) £82 5 ¤ Artesia Percha Dam State Park Oliver Lee State Park (OID 1079) 5 Bill Evans Lake Acres: 638 82 ¤£ ¤£82 Lea
Silver City Hobbs 5 5 ¤£85 ¤£180 Red Rock Wildlife Management Area ¤£70
¤£62 Brantley Wildlife Area Grant
54 £285 City Of Rocks State Park ¤£ ¤ Otero Brantley Lake State Park
25 ¤£180 §¨¦ Eddy 62 River Ranch WMA ¤£
Leasburg Dam State Park
Fort Selden State Park Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park 5Carlsbad ¤£180 ¤£70 Lordsburg ¤£54 5 Las Cruces 5
Deming 70 Dona Ana §¨¦150 ¤£ ¤£70 ¤£180 Mesilla Valley Bosque Park
¤£180 ¤£180 Luna Picacho Bosque Tract ¤£285
Rockhound State Park
32°0'0"N ¤£85 32°0'0"N ¤£62
Hidalgo
Sunland Park Pancho Villa State Park 5
Federal Lands 5 Major Cities/County Seats Units with Potential Conflicts Municipal Land National Park Service 0 12.5 25 50 Miles Bureau of Land Management Sovereign Tribal/Private Lands Major Rivers Public State Land Other Federal Agency ¯ Private Land Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Herd Area 0 15 30 60 Kilometers U.S. Interstate Highways State Game & Fish U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Sovereign Tribal Bureau of Land Management/Department of Defense Scale 1:500,000 U.S. Highways State Parks U.S. Forest Service State/County/Municipal Lands Map Coordinate Projection: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS Bureau of Reclamation Central Meridian -107.0 State Highways County Land State Trust Land U.S. Forest Service Wild Horse Herd Territory
Department of Defense 31°0'0"N
31°0'0"N County Boundaries
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Colfax Colfax Colfax Colfax Taos Taos Taos Taos San Juan Rio Arriba Union San Juan Rio Arriba Union SA San Juan Rio Arriba Union San Juan Rio Arriba Union N J Farmington UAN R IV5ER Colfax 25 Mora Mora Taos §¨¦ Mora Mora Harding Harding San Juan Union Harding Harding Los Alamos Los Alamos Rio Arriba Los Alamos Los Alamos C E R H I D Sandoval Sandoval O Sandoval Sandoval AC N McKinley McKinley O CH A McKinley McKinley R AM R Santa Fe San Miguel Santa Fe San Miguel I A G Santa Fe San Miguel Santa Fe San Miguel VE IO R R
Quay Quay Mora Quay Quay Bernalillo Bernalillo Bernalillo Bernalillo
Cibola Guadalupe Cibola Guadalupe Harding Cibola Guadalupe Cibola Guadalupe Los Alamos
Valencia Valencia Santa Fe Valencia Valencia Torrance Curry Torrance Curry Torrance Curry Torrance Curry Sandoval §¨¦25 R 5 I De Baca De Baca McKinley O De Baca De Baca P U Santa Fe San Miguel C A E NAD IVE R R IAN R Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Socorro Socorro C Rio Rancho Socorro Socorro O Catron Catron Catron Catron 5 40 Lincoln Lincoln §¨¦ Lincoln Lincoln Albuquerque Quay 40 5 §¨¦ Bernalillo P Chaves Chaves E Chaves Chaves Cibola C Guadalupe O S R Sierra Sierra IV Sierra Sierra E Valencia R Lea Lea Torrance Curry Lea Lea Grant Grant Clovis Grant Grant Otero Otero 5 Otero Otero Eddy Eddy 25 Eddy Eddy §¨¦ De Baca Dona Ana Dona Ana Dona Ana Dona Ana
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Hidalgo Hidalgo Roosevelt Hidalgo Hidalgo Socorro Catron 100 100 Lincoln 100 100
´ Miles ´ Miles Roswell ´ Miles ´ Miles 5 Chaves Sovereign Tribal Lands Federal Lands State Trust Lands Private/NGO Lands Sierra Total Acreage: 33,954,923 acres Total Acreage: 8,247,841 acres Total Acreage: 26,731,837 acres R Total Acreage: 9,153,872 acres E V I
R Alamogordo A Hobbs The New Mexico Wild Horse Act (NMSA 77-18-5, 2007) defines a wild horse as an unclaimed horse on public land that is not an estray. The statute L 5 TABLE 1: Minimum acreage to support two 900 pound horses I Lea indicates New Mexico public lands do not include federal lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service or New G 5 Mexico State Trust Lands. Further, the statute requires certain New Mexico-designated wild horses be placed on state or private preserves, based on estimated forage production levels and Grant This map is the second in a series of maps being developed for New Mexico Livestock Board to Otero returned to New Mexico public lands or held for adoption. Knowing spatial distribution and extent of NM public lands is one important step in 25 estimate New Mexico public lands potentially under the purview of the New Mexico wild horse act percent use of forages associated with ecologically §¨¦ Carlsbad implementation of the NM wild horse statute. We used criteria to identify NM public lands that identified all lands managed by a state agency or Eddy (NMSA 77-18-5 Wild horses; conformation, history and deoxyribonucleic acid testing; Spanish sustainable use. Las Cruces 5 local governments. All federal lands were removed from consideration as NM public lands. New Mexico public land units of less than 100 acres or Dona Ana colonial horses; birth control. (2007)). This map may not represent accurately specific land areas 10 5 those falling within or abutting municipalities were classified as representing potential conflicts for ecological and human health and safety 1 2 2 §¨¦ subject to the statute. No endorsement by New Mexico State University or any state agency listed purposes, respectively. Because public lands are created with a specific purpose we asked state agencies responsible for management of Lbs/Acre 25% use 40% use Luna or identified on the map is implied. Extant and additional digital data sets are being reviewed to remaining available NM public land to identify potential opportunities or conflicts to implementation of the NM wild horse statute for specific NM 443 ± 26 176 110 ensure accurate surface ownership representation across the state of New Mexico. Accuracy based public land units. Of a total of 921 units identified as New Mexico public land, 14 units had no expressed potential for conflict in implementing the 1109 ± 69 70 44 Hidalgo on data sets and limitations defined within appropriate metadata. NM wild horse statute. Potential conflicts with implementation of the NM wild horse statute included: units below the minimum 100 acre minimum 12/16/2019 Map Series 2b V.1.3 1 (768), units not owned or only partially owned by the state/county agency (65), units within or abutting municipalities (40), units with high human Estimated annual forage production was based on available data and horse recreational use (8), and units with other potential conflicts (26). 6 of the 14 units having no expressed potential conflicts were classified and not a random sample and may not accurately estimate Map Authors: Product of New Mexico State University's production for specific New Mexico rangeland habitats. Estimates as unknown ownership in the database. Ownership needs to be determined. Regardless of the potential for opportunity or conflict, further review of Range Improvement Task Force (RITF) and Center for Applied Spatial Ecology (CASE) represent average low and high forage production across all For further information contact Dr. Samuel T. Smallidge (575-646-5944; [email protected]) this information is warranted. Ultimately, the New Mexico Government has authority over addressing opportunities and conflicts associated with habitats in the state and illustrates annual variability in forage Data Sources: Data were downloaded from National Gap Analysis Project (GAP) implementation of the NM wild horse statute. production. Forage production is highly variable based on timing 60 and amount of precipitation. Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US 1.4)