Important Update on City Streetlights
The City Council is moving forward tonight to approve a contract to convert 2,060 streetlights to energy-efficient LED light bulbs, part of a preliminary plan to convert 3,500 streetlights across the City. This is a laudable effort which will save the City on energy...
Join us for this free and informative chat
This Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30pm FREE EVENT! Join these two outspoken NM conservation advocates, activists, and change-makers as they discuss answers to the questions below and to your questions as well! Kevin is Executive Director of the Southwest Environmental...
SFCT is Hiring!
CONSERVATION SPECIALIST Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT) seeks a detail-oriented, creative, collaborative, and experienced professional to manage the acquisition of lands and conservation easements and to assist with the stewardship of those already in SFCT’s...
Instructions on Not Giving Up
Tomorrow is the first day of spring. What a relief! This wasn’t the easiest winter to live through. Slow down for a minute to take this moment in. Here’s a poem to set the tone for the change in seasons. Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón -1976-...
Let’s Discuss Some Solutions
Hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since the coronavirus shut everything down. Last year at this time, we had to cancel the Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Lensic, move home for what we thought would be just a month or so, and start the hard process of...
Learn how conservation impacts our biggest challenges
Last December, almost 80 people tuned in for our earthLINES Online Chat with authors Laura Paskus and Bill deBuys about climate change in the southwest. We’ve scheduled another earthLINES Online Chat for Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30 pm, and I hope you will join...
Happy Valentine’s Day!
We just wanted to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day weekend, which looks like it is going to be cold and snowy. What better time than to hunker down with your beloveds and watch some Banff films? See the information and link below. A small percentage of your...
842 More Acres Preserved in the Galisteo Basin!
I don’t know about you, but I was pretty happy to make it through 2020, and I guess I expected 2021 to be better, just by virtue of it not being 2020 anymore! But as you’ve probably noticed, it isn’t much better, not yet, anyway. Maybe it was...
SFCT E-Newsletter 1/15/2021
Photo: Puerto Nambé in the Pecos Wilderness, circa 2003. Credit: © Scott Swearingen 2020 was an unusual year that forced us at SFCT to pivot on a dime and be as responsive as we could be to changing circumstances. You came right along with us, and I cannot thank you...Upcoming Events
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10:00 am Community Cruise for Bike Month ... @ Railyard Park Community Room
Community Cruise for Bike Month ... @ Railyard Park Community Room 
May 11 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Come along on a slow community bike ride on Santa Fe’s urban trails and the bike-friendly streets that connect them. Building off of last Fall’s “Tour de Mural” theme, we will visit some outlying murals[...]