Events
There will be a public meeting in Albuquerque on New Mexico fisheries management plan on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 6:00 to 7:00 PM. SANTA FE -The Department of Game and Fish is seeking public comment on the draft of a new fisheries management plan that will help guide the department's efforts into the future. The new plan includes management direction for specific waters, primary fish species and project priorities. The last comprehensive, statewide, fisheries management plan was adopted in 1987 and only covered sportfish. The new draft plan includes sportfish as well native and non-game fish. The draft plan also includes ... Read More
WHAT: Our annual member BBQ will be held on Saturday, May 30 in conjunction with a stream restoration clinic led by Bill Zeedyk, an expert in wetland and stream habitats. Areas on the Rio Cebolla in the Santa Fe National Forest that we had targeted for restoration work have been closed to public access in response to the listing of the NM Meadow Jumping Mouse as an endangered species. We have permission to conduct this event on a private in-holding on the Rio Cebolla. We will learn about techniques that reduce erosion and riparian degradation and improve fish habitat. These same ... Read More
Saturday, June 6 is Free Fishing Day at Tingley Beach. We are looking for volunteers to work with kids - to teach them how to cast, to teach them how to tie flies. If you are interested, please contact Jerry Burton. The event is from 9am to noon ... Read More
by Brian Beaudoin, Membership Chair The premiere New Mexico Fish on Film Fest was a success and a total of 49 people came to watch videos submitted by NM anglers fishing NM waters. The styles of videos were as diverse as the species of fish and scenery we enjoy here in New Mexico. I personally loved the fact that these were local waters and local fishermen. While maybe the videos weren't as mystical as some of those far off places that I'll probably never get to visit of the F3T, these videos were shot in places I have been or ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair Save the date! Our annual BBQ will be held on Saturday, 30 May, in conjunction with a stream restoration clinic led by Bill Zeedyk, an expert in riparian and piscine habitats. Bill brings a lifetime of experience in natural resource conservation to the practice of river, wetland and riparian restoration. Upon retiring from the U.S. Forest Service with thirty-four years experience in habitat management, Bill founded a small consulting business with the mission of motivating others by developing and advancing simple techniques for healing incised streams and gullied wetlands. The event will be held alongside ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair New Mexico Trout has a tradition of welcoming the Spring opening of FR 376 between the Gilman Tunnels and Porter's Landing with a volunteer trash pickup. That Forest Service road provides access to our Rio Guadalupe home water and it accumulates a lot of roadside trash over a season's heavy use by the many people who visit that corridor. Doing these annual cleanups is one way we can express our thanks for the wonderful trout fishing opportunities the Rio Guadalupe affords, while we help maintain it in a state that we like to visit. Twenty ... Read More
Article by Ron Loehman Photos by Tad Tucker and Ron Loehman "A trout is too valuable to catch only once". That quotation, from famous fly angler Lee Wulff, is the idea that brought more than forty New Mexico Trout members to the Rio Chama below El Vado Dam. There, on March 28th, Noah Parker, owner of Land of Enchantment Guides, conducted a workshop on the benefits that catch and release regulations would bring to the tailwater fisheries on the Rio Chama. It was a near perfect spring day as Noah described the initiative he is leading to persuade the NM Department ... Read More
From Land and Water Program Director, Mollie Walton, PhD January 2015 Newsletter The New Mexico Wetland Roundtables are part of a Wetlands Program Development Grant from EPA Region 6 to foster partnerships and collaboration for the restoration and protection of wetlands and riparian resources in New Mexico and are conducted on a semi-annual schedule. If you have not attended in the past, we would like you to see what the New Mexico Wetlands Roundtable is all about. The next meeting is March 26 (Thursday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm). This meeting will also be in celebration of Bill Zeeyk's 80th birthday. Presentations will ... Read More