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 ...

In the skies above the New Mexico wilderness, federal agents in helicopters this week plan to shoot and kill dozens of feral cattle, which officials say threaten protected lands and the public’s ...

“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 ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a gem of the southwestern United States and southwest New Mexico. June of 2024 marks 100 years since the Gila Wilderness became the very first federally ...

Jun. 1—Some of Jesse Deubel's best memories are rooted in the rugged terrains of the Aldo Leopold and Gila Wilderness areas of southwestern New Mexico. Deubel was 11 when he first accompanied ...

Encompassing some 1,190 square miles of forested mountains and desert canyons in southern New Mexico, the Gila Wilderness is not a visitor-friendly national park, said Elaine Glusac in The New ...

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 ...