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842 More Acres Preserved in the Galisteo Basin!

Jan 29, 2021 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases, Trails

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...

Volunteer Work on Dorothy Stewart Trail and Atalaya Trail, Fall 2020

Oct 29, 2020 | Trails

In September and October, we turned our attention to the City’s Dorothy Stewart Trail and Santa Fe National Forest’s Atalaya Trail, for which we recently renewed our adoption. Although we hadn’t worked on either for several years, these trails were...

Trail Work on the La Tierra Chili Line, Fall 2020

Oct 28, 2020 | Trails

Thanks to volunteers from Journey Montessori School and a representative of Santa Fe Fat Tire Society, we got a jump on protecting the old rail bed and preparing it for the La Tierra Chili Line Trail in September and October. Activities included putting up temporary...

E-News – Enjoy our soon to be Chilly Trails

Oct 23, 2020 | Events, Press Releases, Trails

Well, it looks like this weekend the growing season will come to a close and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get some precipitation. I have to admit that I have been enjoying this part of climate change, which resulted in a longer, warmer Fall where my garden could...

E-News – Keeping Hope (and Our Trails) Alive

Oct 2, 2020 | Events, Press Releases, Trails

Six months into the pandemic, and here we are at Fall. I don’t know about you, but I need some down time! Yet everything is up right now. The virus has made its way to the White House, the days are growing shorter. The election is nearing. And I will be...

La Tierra Chili Line Trail

Sep 21, 2020 | Trails

The La Tierra Chili Line Trail is finally happening! We have received clearance from the City’s Archaeological Review Committee to develop a 1/4-mile rail-to-trail on the historic “Denver & Rio Grande Railroad” railbed in La Tierra Trails, along...

E-News – Birds, Biodiversity & Big Ideas

Sep 18, 2020 | Events, Press Releases, Publications, Trails

These are such disturbing times, made even worse lately by the news that there is a huge die-off of birds happening throughout New Mexico and portions of Colorado. Scientists aren’t sure at this point what’s causing it, except to say that the birds they...

Volunteer Work on Sun Mountain Trail

Sep 16, 2020 | Trails, Uncategorized

Volunteers returned to Sun Mountain Trail for the first time in nearly three years on Sept. 16, 2020. Once again we focused on “fall-line” sections of the lower part of the trail – de-berming, clearing out drainage areas that we had worked on...

Volunteer Work in Dale Ball Trails, Summer and Fall 2020

Aug 21, 2020 | Trails

For the hot months of July and August, and into September, we turned our attention to Dale Ball Trails, revisiting many known erosion problem-spots in the North, Central, and South parts of the trails. Given limitations on public gatherings, with advance preparation...

GUSTO Wayfinding and SFCT Stewardship Signage, Summer 2020

Aug 21, 2020 | Trails

From June through September 2020, upon the re-adoption of City’s natural-surface trails through a new voluntary agreement with City Parks and Recreation Dept., the Trails Program Manager and volunteers put up new signage at trailheads at La Tierra Trails, Dale...