a protected wilderness area in southwest New Mexico and part of the Gila National Forest. The feral cattle have created problems in the Gila National Forest since the 1970s, when a rancher ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico says state trust lands within two proposed federal wilderness area are isolated from roads and ill-suited for mining. The U.S. senator ...

“Here, man is only a visitor,” said a former ranger of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, where pine-covered mountains conceal countless canyons and habitats for wolves, bears and mountain lions ...

The Wilderness areas at risk include the Gila and Blue Range Wildernesses in New Mexico, plus the following Wildernesses in Arizona: Superstition, Salt River Canyon, White Canyon, Needles Eye ...

The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico is 45,000 acres of Mars-like landscapes, made up of weathered rock-and-mineral masses known as concretions. The area is typical of badlands ...