STATUS OF NEW MEXICO’S RIVERS Existing Data Panel Aquatic Species and Water Quality – Stephanie Carman, NMDGF & James Hogan, NMED Riparian Area and Upper.

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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

West Fork - Gila River

Salt Creek - Tularosa Basin (WSMR OPSEC Oct 2004)

Water Quality and Supply Agricultural uses Domestic uses Industrial uses

Biodiversity

Hydrologic Function Flood attenuation Drought mitigation Nutrient cycling Water purification

Recreation

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 Chama River Rio Grande Basin

Healthy ecosystems have evolved in response to natural flow variations.

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

Mancos River San Juan River Basin

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

175 Aquatic Vertebrate Species of Greatest Conservation Need

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

Status of Native Fish

Intermittent Flows Rio Grande at the San Marcial Bridge

Rio Nutria and the Zuni Bluehead Sucker Arizona New Mexico

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

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

Pecos River Hydrograph

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

New Mexico Environment Department Clean Water Act 303d Assessment

Temperature Rio Hondo Pecos River Basin Gila River

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

Black River Pecos Basin... 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

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