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2-3-2 Quarterly Meeting Highlights November, 2022 – Horca, CO Rio Grande National Forest project highlights and pre-implementation discussion including field tour of Trail Gulch project Test drive 2-3-2 Landscape-scale desired conditions Introduction of 2-3-2 governance survey Cross-boundary planning on Federal lands and across public-private boundaries Landscape scale prioritization and optimization February, 2023 – Taos, 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 CFLR landscape across 3,383 acres.

Rock Creek Wood for Life Program Santa Fe National Forest and Navajo Nation Project was developed in partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF), the Santa FE National Forest (SFNF) and the Navajo Nation to provide fuelwood from forest restoration on the SFNF to the Tri-Chapters of the Navajo Nation. Over 90% of the Navajo

Santa Clara Tribal Forest Protection Act Project Santa Clara Pueblo Funding for workforce development in watershed and forest restoration on NFS and Tribal lands. Provides $713k now with options of additional funding in the following 2 years for a total of $1.3M. The funding sets the stage for a successful long-term training program providing skilled

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 National Forest Project in partnership between the Santa Fe NF and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps-New Mexico (RMYC-NM), to help meet the increasing demand for trees for reforestation efforts and to make use of the expanded tree nursery capacity in the southwest while also providing for workforce development. The project re-inventoried

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.