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      On Thursday last week 14 Bosque School seniors from the Wildlife Research Seminar class loaded up 6 posters and 1 oral presentation on the road to a conference in Flagstaff, Arizona. The conference was the 51st Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of the Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society, the “JAM” for … Read More

A ‘grand adventure in learning’ along the Rio Grande for students

We are excited to welcome Amanda Lindell to the team as BEMP’s new Office Manager.  As Office Manager, Amanda will be handling the daily operations of the BEMP office with a focus on administrative support, bookkeeping, and account management.  Amanda will also be managing accounts and contacts in the absence of Katie Higgins while she is out on maternity leave. … Read More

BEMP ON THE RADIO – Click HERE! BEMP was recently invited to be on Albuquerque’s Public Radio station KUNM for the Children’s Hour (originally broadcast on Nov 11, 2017). BEMP Co-Director (and porcupine expert!) Dan Shaw and about 20 kids joined host Katie Stone, and shared all about BEMP’s favorite animal – PORCUPINES! Jayden and Elena were the  BEMP students … Read More

Catch BEMP on Friday, Dec 8th at 7pm on New Mexico PBS show New Mexico in Focus: Our Land   BEMP Co-Director Dan Shaw, BEMP Educator Kelly Steinberg, and 2 BEMP students from South Valley Academy – Lynette and Alberto, Class of ’18 – were filmed this week for a special episode of the show all about BEMP’s great work … Read More

Building from our own experience as BEMP students from 6th grade, we, the Wildlife Biology class at Bosque School, have participated in many activities related to the bosque and the Rio Grande watershed. In the classroom this year, we learned about native and exotic fish of the Rio Grande. We then helped the US Fish and Wildlife Service with their … Read More

A big part of BEMP’s work is facilitating hands-on and rigorous research opportunities for high school students. At Bosque School, once students take one wildlife biology course, they can elect to do independent studies to further their wildlife research interests. Juli (Bosque School Class of ’18) and Glen (Bosque School Class of’18) have been working hard the last few months … Read More

Have you ever explored the bosque? Right in Albuquerque’s backyard is a nearly continuous network of trails that run north-south along the river and wind their way through the forest. These trails even connect Albuquerque to neighboring cities! There are larger trails with lots of foot traffic and smaller trails that few may know. Regardless, these trails allow us as … Read More

Pictured above: Ms. Greenleaf, on the far left, with her Corrales Elementary School 5th graders on a BEMP Study Trip On October 2nd, 2017 Ms. Greenleaf’s 5th grade class from Corrales Elementary School came to Bosque School to do a Study Trip with BEMP. Ms. Linda Greenleaf (formerly Linda Pierce) is a BEMP alumna herself! She started “BEMPin” back when she … Read More

What an exciting summer it has been smacking salt cedar trees with an insect net! Why is BEMP smacking trees? BEMP interns Ivan Robles and Keara Bixby spent their 2017 summer in search of the tamarisk leaf beetle (TLB), an introduced biological control for the non-native saltcedar tree also known as a tamarisk or Tamarix spp.. This is the fourth … Read More