New Mexico’s mapped corridors cluster around the Jemez Mountains and Mt Taylor, with several herds mapped in partnership with Pueblo and Tribal wildlife agencies including Santa Ana, Tesuque, and the Jicarilla Apache Nation. This map shows every USGS-mapped big-game migration corridor in New Mexico — 12 herd units, 85 GPS-collared animals, and 227 tracked migration segments, recorded between 2013 and 2021.
Click any corridor or stopover for herd-level stats. Toggle species on and off in the controls above the map, or pick a featured corridor lower on the page to load real GPS tracks onto the map.
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Big-game migration in New Mexico by the numbers
12 mapped herd units
85 individual animals tracked by GPS collar
227 GPS migration tracks recorded between 2013 and 2021
5,233 km² of migration corridor identified
7 stopovers — critical rest and refuel sites along the corridors
Mule Deer: Pueblo Of Santa Ana herd — 0 tracked animals, —
Mule Deer: Rosa herd — 0 tracked animals, —
Mule Deer: San Cristobal herd — 0 tracked animals, —
Mule Deer: Tesuque Pueblo herd — 0 tracked animals, —
Mule Deer: Urraca herd — 0 tracked animals, —
What threatens migration corridors in New Mexico
Across the West, the biggest threats to big-game migrations are not the things that kill individual animals — they’re the things that fragment the corridor itself. Energy development, road crossings, fences and subdivision of winter range have all been documented as drivers of corridor loss in this dataset. State wildlife agencies, the USGS Corridor Mapping Team, and conservation NGOs are now using maps like this one to guide decisions about where to build wildlife crossings, where to replace woven-wire fences, and where to prioritise conservation easements on private winter range.
Explore further
This page is part of MapScaping’s western big-game migration series. See the Western US Big Game Migration Map for the complete dataset across all ten states, or browse a different state:
I'm Daniel O'Donohue, the voice and creator behind The MapScaping Podcast ( A podcast for the geospatial community ). With a professional background as a geospatial specialist, I've spent years harnessing the power of spatial to unravel the complexities of our world, one layer at a time.
