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Article: Restoring endangered species on the Pueblo of Santa Ana.(TRIBAL CONSERVATION)
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
- Author:
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The Pueblo of Santa Ana is located in north-central New Mexico and encompasses over 79,000 acres (32,000 hectares) of trust land. Six miles (9.6 kilometers) of the Rio Grande flow through the Pueblo's boundaries. Historically, the Rio Grande was a perennial, winding, and braided waterway meandering across a floodplain that was miles wide. The low, sandy banks often experienced flooding and deposition of alluvial material high in nutrients that helped support a healthy riparian ecosystem. In the southwest, such areas of riparian forest along the river floodplains are called bosques, from the Spanish word for woodlands. A healthy bosque ecosystem includes cottonwood (Populus ...