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Mara Weisenberger As the first biologist for the San Andreas NWR in NM, Mara Weisenberger has been responsible for developing the refuge's biological program over the past 10 years. San Andreas NWR is within the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range, which is intensively used for weapons testing, and also overlaps with the USDA Experimental Range. Mara coordinates smoothly with both entities to accomplish the prescribed burns and other habitat management needed to support the desert bighorn sheep. She is also involved in research and study on the control of Chronic Wasting Disease. She built a partnership of state and federal agencies to work to rebuild the refuge's endangered desert bighorn from its low point of just one animal to its current level of over sixty. |