Coyote Springs Wetland is located on Kirtland Air Force Base. Access is restricted.

Coyote Springs is a handful of small natural springs located in a small canyon on the eastern slope of the Manzano Mountains in what is now Kirtland Air Force Base. In the late 1800s, a hotel was built at the site, where guests could bathe in the mineral-rich springs.  For a time, the water was bottled and sold by an Albuquerque company.

After Coyote Springs became a part of Kirtland in the 1940s, the springs were largely ignored. For years, water from the main spring ran down a small arroyo and onto a gravel road used to access sites used by Sandia National Laboratories.

In 2004-2005, Kirtland, through its  Natural Resources Office, started a wetland restoration project at Coyote Springs, which today features a large lined pond that attracts a variety of wildlife. 

In 2020 and 2021, the environmental organization Rio Grande Return, funded by Oklahoma State University and supported by Kirtland AFB, removed non-native vegetation (Russian elm, salt cedar, and Russian olive trees) from the area, revegetating around Coyote Springs and along the adjacent Arroyo del Coyote with native cottonwood and willows; as it matures, this vegetation will provide habitat, stream shade, and bank stabilization.