SILVER CITY, N.M.— Following a decade of advocacy from the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today added the Peñasco least chipmunk of southeastern New ...

is one of the smallest chipmunks, and is yet another endemic species to New Mexico that is facing imminent extinction. The tiny chipmunk lives in subalpine forests where it uses shade from the ...

NEW RESEARCH FROM UNM REVEALING HANTAVIRUS COMMONLY LINKED TO DEER MICE, HAS BEEN FOUND IN 30 SMALL MAMMAL SPECIES IN NEW MEXICO, INCLUDING RODENTS LIKE GROUND SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS, GOPHERS AND ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hantavirus, the disease that killed Gene Hackman’s wife, is carried in more than 30 animals in New Mexico ... but also in squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, and rats.