The Pecos Wilderness feeds many of New Mexico’s most important watersheds. This high-alpine landscape provides clean drinking water for communities, sustains traditional acequia farming systems, and offers vital habitat for numerous wildlife like elk, bear, and one of America’s most robust herds of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.
On the southern end of the Pecos Wilderness, the Upper Pecos Watershed gives rise to the 970-mile Pecos River. Unfortunately, over 120,000 acres of unprotected, roadless forests in and around the Upper Pecos Watershed are threatened by proposed hard rock mining, road construction, and logging. These lands lack permanent protection, leaving the watershed’s health, and the communities and wildlife that depend on it, vulnerable to industrial activity and habitat fragmentation.
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The source of rivers that supply water to populated communities
Critical corridors for elk migration and Rio Grande cutthroat trout.
Ancestral lands and cultural resources that support Pueblo and Indigenous peoples, land grant communities, and centuries-old acequia systems.
Opportunity to preserve the ecological and scenic wholeness of the Sangre de Cristo mountains.
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