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STATUS OF NEW MEXICO’S RIVERS Existing Data Panel

Explore the existing data on the status of New Mexico's rivers, including aquatic species, water quality, riparian area conditions, and watershed health. Discover the importance of healthy ecosystems and the impact of altered streamflows on river structure.

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STATUS OF NEW MEXICO’S RIVERS Existing Data Panel

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  1. STATUS OF NEW MEXICO’S RIVERS Existing Data Panel Aquatic Species and Water Quality – Stephanie Carman, NMDGF & James Hogan, NMED Riparian Area and Upper Watershed Condition – Susan Rich, EMNRD Geomorphic Function and Surface-Connected Aquifers – Shann Stringer, Tetra Tech Agro-Ecosystem Condition and Climate/Drought Vulnerability – Brian Hurd, NMSU San Juan River

  2. West Fork - Gila River

  3. Salt Creek - Tularosa Basin (WSMR OPSEC Oct 2004)

  4. Water Quality and Supply • Agricultural uses • Domestic uses • Industrial uses

  5. Biodiversity

  6. Hydrologic Function • Flood attenuation • Drought mitigation • Nutrient cycling • Water purification

  7. Recreation

  8. Chama River Rio Grande Basin The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. — Chief Seattle

  9. Healthy ecosystems have evolved in response to natural flow variations.

  10. An Altered Streamflow Effects the Chemical and Physical Structure of a River March 2005 July 2005 Gila River

  11. Mancos River San Juan River Basin

  12. When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. - Leonardo DaVinci San Antonio River Rio Grande Basin

  13. 175 Aquatic Vertebrate Species of Greatest Conservation Need

  14. Sandhill Crane Costa’s Hummingbird Northern Leopard Frog Meadow Jumping Mouse Western Painted Turtle Aberts Squirrel Interior Least Tern Mexican Gray Wolf 479 Vertebrate Species

  15. Status of Native Fish

  16. Intermittent Flows Rio Grande at the San Marcial Bridge

  17. Arizona New Mexico Rio Nutria and the Zuni Bluehead Sucker

  18. Middle Rio Nutria Current Habitat Rio Nutria and the Zuni Bluehead Sucker Upper Rio Nutria Historical Habitat

  19. Rio Grande shiner Pecos River Diversity flathead catfish gray redhorse Pecos bluntnose shiner Plains killifish blue sucker

  20. Pecos River Hydrograph

  21. Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water. - Plutarch Rio Nutria Zuni River Basin

  22. New Mexico Environment Department Clean Water Act 303d Assessment

  23. Temperature Rio Hondo Pecos River Basin Gila River

  24. Sedimentation Mancos River San Juan River Basin Rio de las Vacas Jemez Mountains

  25. ... the time has also come to identify and preserve freeflowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. - President Lyndon Johnson Black River Pecos Basin

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