The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will designate approximately 13,970 acres of critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. The designation will elicit Federal agencies’ assistance in the appropriate management of dense vegetation along 170 miles of streams that can support the mouse in New Mexico, eastern Arizona and southern Colorado.
“Critical habitat designation for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse will ensure that sufficient, high quality riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian habitat is available for the species’ eventual recovery,” said Dr. Benjamin Tuggle, Regional Director of the Southwest Region. “This carefully determined designation identifies habitat most vital to the survival of the species.”
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