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Federal regulators proposed protections for an imperiled New Mexico plant in the New Mexico’s southwest bootheel region as the State sought stricter rules to prevent the extinction of its rarest ...

The roadrunner — more specifically the greater roadrunner, scientific name Geococcyx californianus — was declared New Mexico's state bird in 1949. According to the National Audubon Society ...

State guitar: A guitar known as “the New Mexico sunrise” | Photo Courtesy: NM Sec. of State New Mexico’s state symbols, poems and songs: State flower: Yucca.