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It is located in two non-adjacent units of northeastern New Mexico. The western unit is located in northwestern Harding, eastern Mora, and southeastern Colfax counties. The smaller eastern unit is located in eastern Union County, on the border with Oklahoma and Texas. The grassland has a total area of 137,131 acres (55,495 ha). [2]
The project irrigates 193,000 acres (780 km 2) along the river in the states of New Mexico and Texas. [1] Approximately 60 percent of this land is in New Mexico. Some water is also allotted to Mexico to irrigate some 25,000 acres (100 km 2) on the south side of the river.
Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation water to a large area around Carlsbad, diverted from the Pecos River and the Black River. The late 19th and early 20th-century elements of the project were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964.
New Mexico Wildlife "Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Game & Fish. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2013; Liddell, Judith; Hussey, Barbara (October 26, 2011). Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-426-2
New Mexico and 12 other western states together account for 93% of all federally owned land in the U.S. Roughly one–third of the state, or 24.7 million of 77.8 million acres, is held by the U.S. government, the tenth-highest percentage in the country.
Flying over the desert landscape of southeastern New Mexico in a four-seat helicopter, Stephen Aldridge could count around a dozen man-made lagoons brimming with toxic wastewater glistening ...