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There are very few green areas year round. RIght now it is all very brown, except for the agareas with irrigation all along the Rio Grande.
Otherwise, mostly in the mountains and areas with surface water. For example in Catron County, Luna, Glenwood, Alma, Aragon etc.
Yes, Glenwood area is very green, nearby Alma too...
Glenwood in SW NM is kinda unique in the state, it is relatively low elevation,
about 4,500 ft ASL (lower than Albuquerque) and recieves more precip than most
places in NM but very little snow due to very mild winter, average january high
is about 57F. I visted the area to see “The Catwalk”, the big tourist attraction near Glenwood,
and was amazed how green it was, not junipers or pines, but broadleaf trees,
both deciduous Fremont cottonwoods and “evergreen” Arizona Live Oaks.
I'm just now planning a pre-retirement scouting trip to the Silver City area (SW NM) and east of Alamogordo (Southern NM). Both are quite green by Southwestern standards. In Silver City, as you head north to higher elevations, it gets greener. In Alamogordo, as you head east to High Rolls and then to Cloudcroft it also gets progressively greener and becomes quite forested. I can tell by looking at photos of homes for sale.
As an NM photographer, green-ness is more of a "spice" than the whole dish. We have so many more colors on our palette. Much of New Mexico is at the northern border of the Chihuahuan desert and at the southernmost reaches of the Rocky Mountains so like borderlands in general, the variety is what catches the eye. But--- there is plenty of green to go around.
Northeast NM ranch country.
Gila Wilderness -- SW NM
Albuquerque's volcanoes -- albeit in a wet year.
Valles Caldera -- when not in the snow...this was in the fall
Jemez Mountains
Rio Grande Bosque Forest in fall color -- Cottonwoods
Rio Rancho, NM
Friday 4:00 PM, June 8, 2016
Mostly Sunny
96 °F
Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 8%
Wind: 6 mph
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