Citizen’s Wilderness Inventory of Otero Mesa

Otero Wilderness Inventory Unit. Introduction     The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (NMWA), formed in 1997, is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and Wilderness areas. This report presents the results of NMWA’s four-year wilderness inventory process through which NMWA staff and hundreds of volunteers studied the wilderness potential on public lands in New Mexico managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The wildlands presented in this report meet the requirements and intent of wilderness as outlined in the Wilderness...