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Their motto is <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1694&entry_id=1498" title="http://www.plentymag.com/features/2007/12/bosque.php" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.plentymag.com/features/2007/12/bosque.php’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">"It’s Easy Being Green"</a> and here they demonstrate with news of some newly liberated wild lands.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Nearly two dozen members of a New Mexico non-profit, three geologists, sundry guests, and one reporter bowed their heads to 30-knot winds last Saturday to hike up 6,272-foot Chupadera Peak in central New Mexicos Chihuahuan desert. The motley band was celebrating the unique purchase and donation of this $62,000 rock.<br />
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The cacti and cresote covered mountain rises abruptly on the western side of the Rio Grande floodplain. As part of the Chupadera Mountains, it provides both high elevation habitat for songbirds and serves as a natural wall protecting the wetland stopover home for more than 50,000 wintering birds.<br />
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A birding group called Friends of the Bosque will give this 140-acre chunk of mountain to Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, a roughly 57,000-acre area of protected land in New Mexico. The refuge will in turn ask Congress to designate the land as wilderness.</span><br /></div><br />More after the break….<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/archives/1498-guid.html#extended">Continue reading "Plenty Magazine"</a>
