Apr. 30—As one famed species spreads its wings and flocks toward another seasonal mainstay, a plethora of different birds return to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge for the spring and ...

My husband and I travel about nine months a year in a fifth-wheel trailer. Our goal is to be as far from civilization and as close to wild animals as possible. We know we are lucky and would like to ...

Each winter, tens of thousands of visitors descend on New Mexico. Not the two-legged pilgrims here for the hot air balloon festival, but winged visitors who winter at Bosque del Apache National ...

It’s 5:30 a.m., 27 degrees and pitch-black dark on a November morning in New Mexico. I’m standing in a small group on a wooden platform built out over the water named “The Flight Deck.” Although we ...

BOSQUE DEL APACHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.M. – The visitor center and tour loop at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge will remain closed as crews try to get a handle on a wildfire that has ...

Many seekers on a vision quest have hung their hats on Henry David Thoreau’s explanation for his time in the woods at Walden: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only ...

On a recent freezing Monday morning, 15,000 Rocky Mountain sandhill cranes awoke at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, surrounded by a thin layer of ice. Sunlight crept into the ...

Nearly three hours had passed before I realized I hadn’t moved at all, entranced by a wall of sound and wave upon wave of countless birds filling the sky. I’d spent the first two hours of daylight on ...

Thanksgiving might be over but some turkeys live on at Bosque Del Apache.Watch the video above as our KOAT viewer Rose Yazzie captured these turkeys who were able to dodge and survive Thanksgiving ...

BOSQUE DEL APACHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE - A wildfire that has burned more than a square mile in southern New Mexico has forced the closure of the visitor center and tour loop at Bosque del Apache ...