Legislative Directive
EnvironData- NM is housed and maintained by Natural Heritage New Mexico (NHNM), a division of the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico under the auspices of the 2021 the Environmental Database Act (HB51). Under the act, NHNM, “with the cooperation of the state agencies, shall improve the state's environmental data infrastructure by creating, operating and maintaining the environmental database, which shall be user-friendly, searchable and accessible to the public and state agencies and its primary services free of charge. The environmental database shall house the state's environmental data for the purpose of governmental transparency, inter-agency cooperation and information sharing and to provide widespread access to the best scientific data to address the state's natural resource and environmental management needs.” Overall, the goal of the site is to enable state agencies and the public to understand the resources within an area, and to help predict the potential impacts of additional development. Both agencies and the public should be able to use the site to increase their understanding of what is occurring on the ground, and make informed decisions about future actions.
Natural Heritage New Mexico (NHNM)
Natural Heritage New Mexico serves the people of New Mexico in their efforts to effectively manage and conserve their unique, diverse, and valuable biological resources. We perform conservation biology research in the context of global change, enhance conservation literacy and training, and are a portal for acquiring and disseminating biodiversity conservation information for New Mexico and the Southwest. To meet these goals NHNM works in partnership with state and federal agencies to build and maintain the New Mexico Conservation Information System (NMCIS) with links to data and research on the conservation of New Mexico’s plants, animals, and ecosystems.
