There's a surprising amount of farmland in the bosque, which runs alongside the Rio Grande for most of its duration, and a lot of that farmland is low-value cro

There's a surprising amount of farmland in the bosque, which runs alongside the Rio Grande for most of its duration, and a lot of that farmland is low-value crops like alfalfa. I would guess this is due to a combination of not wanting to pay for it for their cows and not wanting to fail to use water rights, lest others try to make claims.