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RGJV Monitoring Recap – 2024
The Rio Grande Joint Venture (RGJV) performs monitoring activities on private lands throughout its geography to understand how vegetation and/or bird abundance and diversity are changing in response to management actions designed to enhance and regenerate habitat. In 2024, we collected most monitoring data on properties enrolled in the South Texas Grassland Restoration Incentive Program […]
Las Cienegas: Restoring Small Areas with Big Impact
Continuing work on one of the JV’s earliest projects (funded originally by TPWD and NFWF in 2019) Jeff Bennett, Price Rumbelow, the Dixon Water Foundation, and Borderlands Research Institute collaborated in 2024 to restore this important wetland using Pittman-Robertson funding. The Property is located on the southern flank of the Davis Mountains and is comprised […]
IBWC/CILA sign Minute 331 establishing a Rio Grande Environment Work Group
The International Boundary and Water Commission US and Mexican sections signed Minute 331 (see ibwc.gov for details) on November 7, 2024, which among other things officially established a Rio Grande Environment Working Group. The formation of the RGEWG is a direct result of RGJV partners’ combined efforts to engage with the agency on recommendations for […]
Fall Management Board Meeting in Mexico
The Rio Grande Joint Venture Management Board and staff met in the lovely town of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in the Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on September 9 – 12, just as the town and the entire country was preparing for the upcoming 16 de septiembre holiday. Red, green and white bunting, Mexican flags, […]
Encuentro Ganadero del Desierto Chihuahuense Event
The second Encuentro Ganadero del Desierto Chihuahuense event, led by our partners at Evaluación Integral y Restauración de Hábitat, was held Nov 14-15, 2024 in Chihuahua City, Mexico. The successful event was the result of the joint effort by Bird Conservation of the Rockies, Pronatura Noreste, Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Rancho […]
On the Search for Little Brown Birds
In December 2023 and January & February 2024, the Rio Grande Joint Venture kicked off its first ever winter grassland bird monitoring season in west Texas. Two of Sul Ross State University’s Borderlands Research Institute graduate students, Emily Blumentritt and David Tonnessen, were hired and managed by RGJV Science Coordinator Rebekah Rylander and trained by […]
Developing a Conservation Investment Strategy for the Tamaulipan Brushlands
As part of the RGJV plan to increase grassland conservation in the Tamaulipan Brushlands (TB) ecoregion, staff have been working on the initial steps to develop a TB Conservation Investment Strategy (CIS). In a nutshell the CIS could be defined as ‘an overarching, landscape–level strategy that is used by regional partners to help guide their […]
Laguna de Santiaguillo
The Rio Grande Joint Venture management board, staff, and guests enjoyed a field trip to Laguna de Santiaguillo during the August board meeting and learned a lot about this very important wetland in the state of Durango, MX. Both Ducks Unlimited Mexico (DUMAC) and Pronatura Noreste, (PNE) along with many other local partners, are working […]
RGJV in the Process of Designing Project Tracking Tool
During the Rio Grande Joint Venture Board Meeting in Durango, Mexico, Science Coordinator Rebekah Rylander presented a rough draft of a project tracking tool that was created using Esri-based online applications. The goal of the project tracking tool is to provide RGJV partners a place to share general locations of where they are performing habitat […]
PIF Public Awareness Award
A BRIEF REPORT BY JESÚS FRANCO ON PIF PUBLIC AWARENESS AWARD FOR MUSEO DE LAS AVES DE MÉXICO, JUNE 3, 2023: On June 3, 2023, Jesús Franco of the Rio Grande Joint Venture and American Bird Conservancy presented, on behalf of Partners In Flight (PIF), the 2022 Partners In Flight Public Awareness Award to the […]