The 4th Northern NM Regional Envirothon brought together five high school teams and two middle school teams on March 31, for a practice run in preparation for the state competition in mid-April. The 28 students traveled from Peñasco, Roswell, and Taos to Mora for the regionals, which assess students’ knowledge in Forestry, Wildlife, Soils, Aquatics, and a revolving Special Topic. The 2026 Special Topic was Nonpoint Source Pollution – contaminants from a variety of sources such as burned area sediment, herbicides, and oil products that move into surface and groundwater following rainfall or snowmelt.
The statewide 2026 New Mexico Envirothon will be held April 16-19 at El Porvenir in Montezuma, NM.
Envirothon is typically led by local soil and water conservation districts (SWCDs). The Conservation Science Center (CSC) at the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute provides organizational support to host the only regional competition in New Mexico, alongside Taos, Tierra y Montes, and Western Mora SWCDs.
The nonprofit New Mexico Envirothon was founded in 2008 to provide high school students with hands-on natural resource workshops and competitions to further their interest in agriculture, environmental science, and resource conservation. Find out more about the New Mexico Envirothon here.