Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The refuge is 570-acres on an old dairy farm that was once known as Price's Dairy and Valley Gold Farms but was established as a national wildlife refuge on September 27, 2012. Valle de Oro NWR is designated as an Urban National Wildlife Refuge, due to its proximity to Albuquerque. It is the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's first Urban NWR in it's Southwest region to be built from the ground up under the new Urban Wildlife Conservation Program's Standards of Excellence.

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