Service Works with U.S. Forest Service to Protect New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse Habitat While Providing Access to Water for Cattle
Responding to concerns from livestock producers the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the U.S. Forest Service to provide water access for livestock grazing on Forest Service allotments in the Apache-Sitgraves National Forest, Lincoln National Forest, and Santa Fe National Forest. The Forest Service will be erecting cattle exclusion fences around sensitive jumping mouse habitat to allow the vegetation needed by the mouse to regenerate. In each of these cattle exclusion areas there will be “cattle lanes” that will allow cattle access to needed drinking water.
