Chamizal National Memorial

Volunteer recognition for National Volunteer Month 2025. Written by Community Volunteer Ambassador Carmelo Bralich

Six people and programs received the 2015 Harzog Award for their exceptional volunteer service. Check out their amazing contributions!

Three park units in the Chihuahuan Desert Network, Big Bend National Park (NP), Carlsbad Caverns NP, and Guadalupe Mountains NP are designated as Class I air quality areas under the Clean Air Act. Class I areas receive the highest protection under the act, and degradation of air quality must be minimal. Air quality concerns include atmospheric deposition effects and visibility impairment from fine particle haze.

Cesar Inostroza makes monumental art as our latest Artist-in-Residence.

Become a Chamizal National Memorial Virtual Ranger! Complete the online activities and print your badge, then let us know what you think.

Across the US, changes in water availability are altering which plants grow where. These changes are evident at a broad scale. But not all areas experience the same climate in the same way, even within the boundaries of a single national park. A new dataset gives park managers a valuable tool for understanding why vegetation has changed and how it might change in the future under different climate-change scenarios.

A women in a blue shirt and wearing glasses stands in front of a wall.

In 2013, the Saguaro Wildland Fire Module (WFM) managed multiple projects simultaneously in AZ, TX, and NM. WFMs are highly skilled and versatile fire crews that provide expertise in long-term planning, ignitions, holding, prescribed fire preparation and implementation support, hazardous fuels reduction, and fire effects monitoring. With their help, fire fulfills its natural or historic role to meet resource and management objectives and create fire-adapted communities.