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The Environment Department requests public comment on a report supporting water quality standards changes to Smelter Tailings Soils Investigation Unit Drainages within the Chino Mine Investigation Area, Grant County, New Mexico.

Published by the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law, Environmental Flows highlights ideas, strategies, and successes of organizations and individuals across New Mexico who are working to ensure environmental flows for the state's rivers and streams.

Part 2 of a video describing principles and methods of forest road and skid trail construction to minimize impacts to water quality.

The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI) is pleased to present the latest issue of the Divining Rod. (Vol. XXXV, No. 2, April 2012)

RFP for Watershed-Based Planning Projects issued 3/4/11 by NM Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Watershed Protection Section. A portion of the §319(h) funding awarded to the New Mexico Environment Department in fiscal year 2012 will fund stakeholder-driven initiatives to develop watershed-based plans which quantitatively describe sources of nonpoint source pollution, identify management measures to address pollutant loading, quantify the effects that implementation of those management measures would have, and accomplish other planning elements.

RFP for On-The-Ground Surface Water Quality Improvement Projects issued 3/4/11 by NM Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Watershed Protection Section. A portion of the §319(h) funding awarded to the New Mexico Environment Department in fiscal year 2012 will fund watershed-based initiatives that are most likely to measurably improve water quality in priority waters by 2015 and in the longer term.

In June, Audubon New Mexico completed a reader-friendly brochure on environmental flows restoration. Titled "Hanging in the Balance: Why our rivers need water and why we need healthy rivers," it includes information on environmental flows, the economic benefits of health rivers to New Mexico, and an overview on a recent EPA-funded study about which rivers in the state are most in need of environmental flows restoration. The brochure also details two collaborative projects currently underway as well as recommendations for restoring elements of natural flow patterns to New Mexico's rivers.

The purpose of this guide is to provide a general foundation for the reader in several interrelated disciplines for the purpose of enabling him/her to characterize and quantify the water needs of riparian and wetland vegetation. Topics discussed are wetland and riparian classification, characteristics and ecology, surface and groundwater hydrology, plant physiology and population and community ecology, and techniques for linking attributes of vegetation to patterns of surface and groundwater and soil moisture. Rocky Mountain Research Station Online Publication.

Presentation on two TNC initiatives: the Rio Grande Water Fund and the proposed Burned Area Learning Network. Presented by Anne Bradley to the state Coordinating Group and NM Drought Task Force Watershed Management Subcommittee at their April 21, 2014 quarterly meeting.

Edited from the original 2003 version