MRG Farms Under Threat

For 25 years RGALT has been working to protect farmland in the middle Rio Grande, the most populated area of NM, including Albuquerque, NM’s largest metropolitan area. The MRG landscape is being threatened due to increasing urbanization, loss of agricultural water...
Conservation Hero: Hank Taliaferro

Conservation Hero: Hank Taliaferro

Hank Taliaferro has been selected as the 2018 Intermountain West Joint Venture private landowner conservation champion award winner! This award recognizes and honors private landowners for their contributions to natural resource conservation and management in the...
Conservation Heroes: The Gonzales’

Conservation Heroes: The Gonzales’

Ernest Gonzales adored the section of the Rio Grande that passes through what used to be his 46-acre piece of property in Socorro County, New Mexico.  Located on the east side of the Rio Grande floodplain just outside of San Antonio, New Mexico, this land provided him...