The Las Cienegas National Conservation Area provides countless opportunities to situate students' academic learning in a real-world setting.

Science

Las Cienegas is home to unique and rare vegetative communities including five of the rarest habitat types in the American Southwest: cienegas (marshlands), cottonwood-willow riparian forests, sacaton grasslands, mesquite bosques, and semi-desert grasslands.
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Read an overview of the scientific research that is conducted at

Las Cienegas.

Social Studies


The land of Las Cienegas has been home to many generations of people. These resources will help show how history, culture and geography form identity and community.
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