Education Calendar

Come out after work or school and join the New Mexico Department of Wildlife to try shotgun shooting on a safe, controlled shotgun range with a certified range safety officer. The Department will loan shotguns and provide ammunition, targets, eye protection and ear protection. If you have never shot a shotgun or would like additional [...]

If you have some experience shooting shotguns and want to try something different, then come out and try glow-in-the-dark clay-target shooting with the New Mexico Department of Wildlife. The Department will set up black lights on the trap field, and you will get to shoot clay targets as they glow under the lights. This shoot [...]

Spend a weekend bonding with your family and learning skills that will last a lifetime. Join us for our Family Small Game Hunting Camp! Learn squirrel identification, rules and regulation, shotgun shooting, squirrel hunting techniques and how to field dress a squirrel. Open to families who have never hunted at all or who have never [...]

Officers from the Department's Farmington Supervisory District will host the Second Annual Tiger Pond Fishing Derby. Activities will include a pellet-shooting trailer, a National Archery in the Schools Program trailer, and OHV education.

Guests — primarily school-aged children and their parents — will receive a stamp book at the Visitor Center. Organizers expect 10-15 educators to be stationed in the plaza or Visitor Center (depending on the weather). Each educator is asked to provide a short activity and reward participants with a stamp upon completion.