This report card is a timely, transparent assessment of Upper Rio Grande watershed health as of November 2022. This document was produced by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Audubon New Mexico, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). Funding was provided by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Over 100 stakeholders contributed to this project. Analysis of environmental flows data conducted by Noelle Patterson & Samuel Sandoval Solis at University of California. UMass Upper Rio Grande Futures Model (URG-FM) was conducted by Chinedum Eluwa & Casey Brown at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Other analyses were done by Alexandra Fries, Katie May Laumann, & Nathan Miller at UMCES and Enrique Prunes and Natalie Shahbol at WWF. Layout and design by UMCES.
Data sources include: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, International Boundary and Water Commission, irrigation districts, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Program, National Land Cover Database, National Park Service, New Mexico Game and Fish, New Mexico Tourism Department, North American Breeding Bird Survey, Office of the State Engineer, Trust for Public Land, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Additional expertise was provided by:
- Gilbert Anaya, International Boundary and Water Commission
- Steven Bassett, The Nature Conservancy
- Craig Cotten, Colorado Division of Water Resources
- Gary Esslinger, Elephant Butte Irrigation District
- Luis Garnica & Alex Mayer, The University of Texas at El Paso
- Norm Gaume, Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates
- Grace Haggerty, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
- Dagmar Llewellyn, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- Anne Marken & Yasmeen Najmi, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
- Maryann McGraw, New Mexico Environment Department Toner Mitchell, Trout Unlimited
- Esteban Muldavin, University of New Mexico
- Michael Porter, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Alex Puglisi, National Wildlife Federation
- Brian Richter, Sustainable Waters
- Cleave Simpson, Rio Grande Water Conservation District
- Chris Stegeman and Cindy Stoke, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
- Paul Tashjian, National Audubon Society
- Andrew J. Treble, Colorado Parks and Wildlife