Building quail habitat and members in the Desert Southwest
Quail Forever is proud to announce a local chapter start in New Mexico. The Southern New Mexico Chapter of Quail Forever is based in Las Cruces, the seat of Doña Ana County in the state’s far south-central region. A group of local volunteers will work together to generate quality wildlife habitat near the country’s southern border.
Unique among national conservation organizations, chapters of Quail Forever retain 100 percent decision-making control over fundraising dollars, allowing volunteers to support impactful wildlife habitat projects, public access initiatives, and conservation education programs throughout the upland bird range. Quail Forever’s regional representative for New Mexico, Lauren Stamm, will work closely with the new chapter to support the organization’s vision to sustain abundant populations of wild quail and other desert wildlife.
“The members of this new chapter have deep ties to New Mexico and have lived in the state for over 30 years,” said regional representative Lauren Stamm. “They are a group of passionate outdoorsmen and women, who are excited to impact their local upland habitat and community.”
Located less than 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Las Cruces sits on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert. The area boasts not only northern bobwhite quail, but scaled, Gambel’s and Montezuma quail as well. The new chapter is excited to get to work protecting their local habitat and celebrating the wide variety of upland species that call the Chihuahuan Desert home. Volunteers will host their first meeting before the start of the hunting season and plan to have a community gathering this fall — with a banquet to follow in early spring 2025.
For more information on the Southern New Mexico Chapter of Quail Forever, contact Bob Kirkpatrick at bklc.rentals@gmail.com. To learn more about Quail Forever in New Mexico, contact Lauren Stamm at lstamm@quailforever.org or 702-417-7010.