Sandhill Cranes. Photo credit: Jerry Goffe, USFWS
	Public Input Sought on Proposed Youth and Mobility Impaired Turkey Hunt April 2009 Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is in the process of developing alternatives for a proposed Youth and Mobility Impaired Spring Turkey Hunt and is seeking public input as part of the process. The refuge will collect public Input through May 30th, 2009. The public is encouraged to provide input to refuge management. How to provide comments Read the Draft Compatibility Determination

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.

2008 Hunting Map

2008 Fishing/Frogging Map

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

Read the 2008-2009 Burned Area Rehabilitation Plan for the Marcial Fire

Bosque del Apache Calendar

Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR