New Mexico Species from BISON-M system

This is an experimental collection of State species of interest from the New Mexico Heritage Society's "Biota Information System of New Mexico." There is interest from a NM Game and Fish Department contact in updating their connection with GAP species as well as discovering a new way to directly connect to live data on Species of Greatest Conservation Need. We are experimenting with a way to pick up all species and run them through the TIR process. The current BISON-M web application provides no smooth way that we could find to interface with software (including web scraping), so we ran a brute force query for all species in the database, copied the raw tabular text output to a text file, and then wrote a simple python script to break [...]