2-3-2 Quarterly Meeting Highlights 2024 February, 2024 – Abiquiu, NM 2-3-2 Partnership and Rio Chama CFLRP recap Partner perspectives on the unique challenges and impacts of the 2-3-2 Navigating collaboration across boundaries: the influence of policy and science translation Monitoring update and adaptive management May, 2024 – El Rito, NM

All Hands All Lands Burn Team Since 2018 the Forest Stewards Guild (Guild), The Nature Conservancy, Region3 of the USDA Forest Service, and many others have partnered to make the All Hands All Lands Burn Team effort a success. In FY23 the team supported two burns in the Rio Chama

Wood for Life Santa Fe National Forest, Chama area, Zia Pueblo, and Navajo Nation 2024: The National Forest Foundation (NFF) established three new wood banks that support communities in and around the 2-3-2 landscape through the Wood for Life Program: Chama Peak Land Alliance (CPLA) Wood Bank provides firewood for

Santa Clara Tribal Forest Protection Act Project Santa Clara Pueblo 2024: Awarded $325,000 in year 2 of 3 years of funding through the Tribal Forest Protection Act. The Tribe worked with American Forests to finalize the Tribal Nursery Business Plan.  Substantial work progressed on the new Tribal Tree Nursery. Ancestral

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

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

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)

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

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