The BEMP has four main educational goals. The BEMP uses mainly secondary school teachers and their students to collect data relevant to the long-term management of bosque functioning.
Data collection occurs synchronously and according to a predetermined schedule.
Thus, a given set of variables is sampled on the same date at all four current BEMP sites. Site specific, abiotic data collected include soil and air temperature, precipitation and groundwater depth. Biotic data include litter production, plant diversity and indicator arthropod activity. Years of restoration related research on the bosque by UNM biologists have demonstrated the value of such data types and the relative ease of collecting them in the field. In addition to the Director, the program is staffed by two coordinators and a data manager.