This BLM Las Cruces Field Office Riparian and Aquatic Habitat Management Plan (HMP) presents a management strategy for restoring and protecting riparian areas administered by the Las Cruces Field Office. Riparian habitats are critical, but very small, areas in relation the large amount of land administered by the BLM. Riparian areas under BLM jurisdiction are often only small segments of a larger area over which the BLM has no management responsibility or authority. The BLM plays an important, but limited, role in improving and protecting riparian habitats in New Mexico. This HMP presents a sequence of tasks for individual riparian areas that, when implemented, will provide a systematic method of achieving proper function condition and long-term stewardship of threatened and endangered species habitat.