Riparian Treatment Monitoring Ed Sargent Wildlife Area The Forest Stewards Guild is leading monitoring efforts on an elk exclosure installed by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish on state land. (Also working with Chama Peak Land Alliance on the monitoring effort) Increased grazing pressure by the elk has decreased riparian vegetation leading to higher
Seed Tree Re-inventory Santa Fe and Carson National Forests 2024 This is the second and final year of this program working with Indian Youth Service Corps and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps to inventory seed trees on the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests for future seed supplies for the Santa Clara Nursery, New Mexico Reforestation
Rito Peñas Negras Project Santa Fe National Forest Multi-phase project designed to stabilize the degrading channel and meadow, improve meadow and riparian function and reestablish and protect vegetation. Joint effort with NFF, Rio Grande Return and National Fish and Wildlife Federation and USFS. Initial phases installed beaver dam analogues (BDA) and post assisted log structures
Upper Rio San Antonio Watershed Restoration Carson National Forest Restoration efforts were guided by the Watershed Based Plan (WBP) created through the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau (NMED SWQB) for the Rio San Antonio Watershed. This plan had been sitting since 2016 waiting for execution. We were able to utilize the CFLRP
Invasives Projects Rio Grande National Forest FY23 survey inventory focused on areas where future vegetation management actions will occur. A total of 12,600 acres were surveyed for noxious weeds under two separate contracts in the summer of 2023. Contractors mapped 259 acres of noxious weeds. These 1,144 infestations will be prioritized for treatment in FY24.
This has been a fruitful summer field season for monitoring. Early in the Spring, we finalized the 2-3-2 Multiparty Monitoring Plan and then put the plan to use! Field crews from Mountains Studies Institute and the Forest Stewards Guild were active in all four of the National Forests in the Rio Chama CFLRP landscape, the Rio Grande,
In the middle of the woods at approximately the 37th parallel in North America, I walk along an invisible line. How do I know I’m on it? My phone tells me. I’m located about an hour from Chama, NM (pop. 912), 25 minutes from Antonito, CO (pop. 647). Needless to say, there’s not a lot
The 2-3-2 Partnership just finished the first edition of the Multiparty Monitoring Plan thanks to the dedicated hard work and collaboration of partners and staff. In fact, since it rolled out, the first on the ground monitoring took place in Tres Piedras. All of it got me thinking. Why do we humans pay attention to
How do you know if someone is being authentic? Just as importantly, how do you ensure that you are? I’ve often heard that building trust is a function of consistency over time. But how much time? Who decides? I had a conversation at the 2-3-2 Partnership meeting in early February in Taos with John Waconda,
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