Skip to main content
2023-2024

2023-2024 Scorecard Dedication

New Mexico's Departing Conservation Champions CVNM has worked closely with many legislators, with some relationships going back decades. Throughout the maelstrom that is the New Mexico legislative session, our advocacy team and allies have spent countless hours consulting, coordinating, celebrating and sometimes commiserating with our conservation champions. In many cases,…
September 6, 2024
2023-2024All Issue Spotlights

Issue Spotlight: Water

It’s now been over one year since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a devastating ruling in Sackett v EPA, the effects of which were immediate – and ongoing. Last May, the Court ruled that the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) does not protect wetlands except under specific and narrow circumstances.…
September 6, 2024
2023-2024All Elected Spotlights

Elected Spotlight: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

Michelle Lujan Grisham has served the Land of Enchantment in various capacities: as a longtime state Cabinet secretary, as a U.S. Representative for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, and most recently as the state’s 32nd governor. Following her successful gubernatorial bid in 2019, Lujan Grisham became the nation’s first Democratic…
September 6, 2024
2023-2024All Quick Hits

Quick Hits: Highlights from the 2023-2024 Sessions

Quick Hits from the 2024 Session: Appropriated $300 million for the Conservation Legacy Permanent Fund to invest in critical land, water and wildlife projects across New Mexico in perpetuity Invested $75 million in the NM Match Fund, which helps eligible local, tribal, and state entities compete with our states applying…
September 6, 2024