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
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)