GENERAL RESOURCES

This page provides access to technical documents and databases. For agencies and organizations, see the LINKS page.

Agriculture and Rangeland Health

• Weekly NM Crop Reports

• Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health. Bureau of Land Management, 2005.

Maps

• BLM Rio Puerco Planning Area maps
• Coronado Soil and Water Conservation District map
• Las Huertas Creek Watershed maps, see pp. 62-72 in: Bandeen RF. Las Huertas Canyon Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS). Placitas, NM: Las Huertas Watershed Project, 2005.

• Mid-Region Council of Governments planning maps
• New Mexico Clean Energy Map, New Mexico Division of Energy, Conservation and Management
• New Mexico Soil and Water Conservation Districts map
• Sandoval County map index page

Planning Documents

• Bandeen RF. Las Huertas Canyon Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS). Placitas, NM: Las Huertas Watershed Project, 2005.

• BLM Land Use Planning Handbook
• BLM Rio Puerco Office: Rio Puerco Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP), Bureau of Land Management, August 2012.

• Eastern Sandoval Citizens Association and Las Placitas Association Joint Comments on BLM Rio Puerco Draft RMP/EIS, Fall 2012.

• ESCAFCA Interim Preliminary Needs Assessment 2007.
• ESCAFCA Drainage Master Plan and and Needs Assessment 2008.
• Habitat Restoration Plan for the Middle Rio Grande. Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program, September 2004.
• Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan, 2000-2050.
• Mining maps (Las Placitas Association website)

• Placitas Area Plan, Sandoval County, 2009.

• Placitas Open Space Master Plan, City of Albuquerque, 2002.
• Sandoval County Comprehensive Plan, 2001.

Plants and Wildlife

• Threatened and Endangered Species of New Mexico, Biota Information System of New Mexico (BISON-M)

• USDA Plant Database

• Threatened and Endangered Species of New Mexico, 2014 Biennial Review. New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish, August 21, 2014

Soil and Water Studies

• Custom Soil Resource Report for Sandoval County  Area, New Mexico, Parts of Los Alamos, Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties. Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture, October 17, 2014.
• Funderburg DE. Trap-Efficiency Investigation Bernalillo Floodwater Retarding Reservoir No. 1 (Piedra Lisa Arroyo) Near Bernalillo, New Mexico, Water Years 1956-1974. Open File Report No. 77-261. Albuquerque, NM: US Dept. of the Interior Geological Survey, 1977.
• Groffman AR, Loomis J, Pazzaglia F. Phase 1 Groundwater Assessment for the Placitas Area. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1997.
• Johnson P, Campbell A. Hydrogeology and Water Resources of the Placitas Area, Sandoval County, New Mexico. Socorro, NM: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, 2002 (updated 2008).
• Johnson PS. Using Geologic Maps to Find Groundwater. In William A. Thomas (ed). Meeting Challenges with Geologic Maps: AGI Awareness Environmental Series 7. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, 2004. [Uses Placitas as the example]
• LeFevre WJ. Geochemical Characterization of Geologically Complex Mountain Front Aquifers: Placitas, New Mexico. Socorro, NM: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1999.
• New Mexico Conservation Science Program ecological assessment reports, The Nature Conservancy
• Peery RL, McCoy AM, Petronis LH. Update of Hydrogeologic Conditions at the Diamond Tail Subdivision, Placitas, New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: John Shomaker & Associates, 2006.

• Senate Memorial 8. Maximizing the Middle Rio Grande Water Supply Study. Mid-Region Council of Governments of New Mexico, January 6, 2014.
• Sweetman A, Bandeen R. Historical and Current Water Use in the Placitas Area, Sandoval County, New Mexico. Version 2.0 [draft]. Placitas, NM: Del Agua Institute, 2002.

Weather

• NOAA National Weather Service NM Forecast

Wildfires

• Tillery AC, Haas JR, Miller LW, et al. Potential Postwildfire Debris-Flow Hazards—A Prewildfire Evaluation for the Sandia and Manzano Mountains and Surrounding Areas, Central New Mexico. Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5161. Central New Mexico: US Geological Survey, 2014.

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This page last reviewed/updated October 11, 2016