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The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Program

The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Program (SWReGAP) is completing their "gap analysis" project. SWReGAP's mission is "To promote conservation of biodiversity through information ... by providing conservation assessments of natural communities and native species,… and to facilitate the application of this information to land management.”
Their objectives are to:

  1. Map the distributions of natural communities
  2. Map predicted habitat of native animal species
  3. Map the degree of management for biodiversity maintenance of land tracts and water bodies focusing on intent
  4. Analyze the representation of biotic elements in the conservation network to identify “gaps” in long-term security
  5. Provide this information to the public and those entities charged with land use research, policy, planning, and management
Visit the SWReGAP website at:
http://leopold.nmsu.edu/fwscoop/swregap/ or from the National Gap site http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/.
Click here for an update on the progress New Mexico is making on this multi-state effort. Caution, this is a large (60MB) Powerpoint presentation. If you want to learn more, contact:

Ken Boykin
NM Project Coordinator
Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project
New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Box 30003, MSC 4901
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone (505) 646-6303   Fax (505) 646-1281

ESRI Presentation on ArcGIS v9.1

If you missed the March 16th, 2005 presentation by the ESRI folks on the upcoming ArcGIS v9.1 and other interesting tidbits, you can download the Powerpoint (~ 4.82MB) here.

Universal Well ID Project

The New Mexico Environment Department, the Office of State Engineer, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Geological Survey, along with other interested state and federal agencies, are working together to develop and implement a Universal Well ID for all wells in New Mexico. Jim Benenson of NMED is spearheading the project.
The current proposal can be viewed here (file size approx. 600KB).

Click here to review the "Preliminary Draft Flood Map Modernization State Business Plan for New Mexico",
prepared by MAP6 in conjunction with FEMA,
in coordination with the NM Department of Public Safety Office of Emergency Management
(January 13, 2004; Santa Fe, New Mexico).

NMSU Presentation on SPARC, Geospatial Activities

If you missed the June 14th, 2005 presentation by Dr. Christopher Brown and Liz Ayarbe of NMSU Dept. of Geography, on the Spatial Applications and Research Laboratory (SPARC) and the plethora of geospatial activities and projects at NMSU, you can download their Powerpoint presentation here (~ 5.8MB).