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The Wonders of the Chihuahuan Desert The Chihuahuan Desert Preserve Association CDPA is a 501c3 charitable association whose mission is to develop establish monitor and maintain adequate and active procedures and programs that lead to conservation of threatened at risk recently delisted or endangered habitats and species of plants and animals through ongoing education research restoration of habitat and the development of outreach activities. This would include but not be limited to environmental studies educational STEM programs held at the Blake Williams Biological Research Station on the Preserve and CDPA scholarships for research opportunities enhancementor restoration of habitats surveys and inventories of species within habitats propagation and genetic research and long term programs that are used to preserve a given species and educate the public on the need for conservation which may ultimately go a long way towards eventually removing these species from the endangered list. A brief introduction to the Chihuahuan Desert follows borrowed from a recent publication The Other Side of Nowhere by Roy Morey Texas AM University Press The CD is arguably the largest warm desert in North America covering as much as 250000 square miles. From north to south the CD stretches from Socorro in southcentral New Mexico to San Luis Potosi in Mexico and from the southeast corner of Arizona to the Pecos River in Texas.