Further Study

Finding Future Ranchers & Farmers

• Beginning Farmers and Ranchers by Ahearn, Mary and Doris Newton. EIB-53, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, May 2009. www.ers.usda.gov
  
• LandLinks, New Mexico

Good Information From Other Places

• American Farmland Trust www.farmland.org. Rocky Mountain Regional Office of American Farmland Trust at 970-464-4963.
  
• Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens America’s Best Farmland (2002)
  
• Strategic Ranchland in the Rocky Mountain West: Mapping the Threats to Prime Ranchland in Seven Western States
  
• Boulder County, City of Lafayette, and City of Louisville. http://www.co.boulder.co.us/openspace. http://www.bouldercounty.org/openspace/resources/agriculture/agriculture_div.htm
  
• Fact Sheet: The Farmland Protection Toolbox.  Farmland Information Center. 2002. http://www.farmlandinfo.org

Groups Preserving Farms & Ranches

• Vision beyond mandate: Creating farmland protected areas in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Todd Miller. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
  
• City of Albuquerque. Web site. http://www.cabq.gov. .City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. 1999. City of Albuquerque Major Public Open Space Facility Plan. Open Space Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  
• New Mexico Land Conservancy. Phone/Fax: 505-986-2801/505-986-3806. P.O. Box 6759, Santa Fe, NM 87502. www.nmlandconservancy.org. Scott Wilber, Executive Director
  
• Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust. Phone/Fax: 505-270-4421. Route 31, Box 63; Lemitar, NM 87823. ceciliam@sdc.org. Cecilia Rosacker-McCord
  
• Taos Land Trust.
  
• Santa Fe Conservation Trust.
  
• Southern Rockies Agricultural Land Trust.
  
• Mule Deer Foundation
  
• The Forest Trust
  
• The Nature Conservancy
  
• Valle Grande

Government Programs

• Natural Resource Conservation Service
  
• Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (NCRS)
  
• Grassland Reserve Program (acquired and held by NRCS)
  
• CRP
  
• National Grasslands