New Mexico

New Mexico, or Estado de Nuevo México in Spanish, is a southwestern state in the United States of America. Once occupied by Native American populations, it now part of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, a state of Mexico and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanic Americans (some recent immigrants and others descendants of Spanish colonists) and the second-highest percentage of Native Americans (mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples). As a   More...

Santa Fe National Forest

Santa Fe National Forest is a unit of the United States Forest Service in northern New Mexico. It consists of five administrative units divided into two main areas, one north of Santa Fe and one near Los Alamos, and includes the Pecos Wilderness and San Pedro Parks Wilderness, wild, road less areas popular with hikers.

Flora and fauna

The forest is predominantly coniferous, with pi'n/juniper "scrub" at the lowest elevations that gives way to ponderosa pines   More...