Sandhill Cranes. Photo credit: Jerry Goffe, USFWS
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Bosque del Apache is Spanish for "woods of the Apache," and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to mean one of the most spectacular National Wildlife Refuges in North America. Here, tens of thousands of birds--including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and many kinds of ducks--gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes.

In the summer Bosque del Apache lives its quiet, green life as an oasis in the arid lands that surround it.

Visitors Center: M-F 7:30-4:00 Weekends: 8 -4:30; Tour Loop: Daily, 1 hour before unrise - 1 hour after sunset.

Refuge Seeks Public Input on Emergency Elk Management Strategies. 
The United States Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed new measures to reduce a population of elk at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. The elk population on the Refuge is currently compromising the Refuge’s ability to produce the grain crops used to support wintering sandhill crane and emergency short-term strategies are needed to reduce the population. The draft environmental assessment for this action is currently available for review and comment. Written comments can be provided to: monica_kimbrough@fws.gov or Monica Kimbrough, Planning Team Leader, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Planning, P.O Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM  87103. Comments will be accepted until January 31, 2013.

Read the Bosque del Apache NWR Planning Update #1, Spring 2007

Read the Bosque del Apache NWR CCP Planning Update #2, November 2009 (.pdf, 5.4M)

Bosque del Apache Calendar

Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR