SFCT Wins the Mayor’s Sustainability Award
Mayor Javier Gonzales’s last award ceremony took place on November 9th at La Fonda, where he gave out his Sustainability Awards. The Santa Fe Conservation Trust won first place in the Environmental Resilience category. With more than 36,000 acres under protection in...
Loss of the night: Light pollution rising rapidly on a global scale
Artificial lighting at night is contributing to an alarming increase in light pollution, both in amount and in brightness, affecting places all over the world, a new study has found. Some regions have showed a steady increase in light pollution aligned with economic...
Light pollution is stealing your view of the stars. National parks want to give it back
More than half of Americans no longer can see the Milky Way Denver Post, October 29, 2017 Darkness is increasingly rare. Land managers here and at other U.S. national parks — joined by more and more towns — are trying to set themselves up as preserves by obtaining...
Bicycle Tour for International Making Cities Livable Conference, Oct. 2
At the request of the Chair of the Bicycle and Trails Advisory Committee, the Trail Program Manager took nine participants in the International “Making Cities Livable” Conference on a tour of bicycle facilities in Santa Fe on Oct. 2. Participants hailed...
Field Trips to La Tierra Trails in October
Thanks to support from Partners in Education to cover transportation costs, we are bringing hundreds more schoolchildren to city trails this October! This season, 4th and 5th Graders from El Camino Real Academy and Nina Otero Community School are visiting La Tierra...
2017 Newsletter
earthLines: 2017 Newsletter
Putting up Wayfinding Signage on Talaya Hill with County Volunteers
In Fall of 2017, we are working with County Volunteer Coordinator Carol Branch to put up wayfinding signage on the County sections of the Dale Ball and Connecting Trails, including Talaya Hill (Dale Ball Trails – South), La Piedra Trail, and Little Tesuque...
Demonstration Work Day and Hike with International Visitors
On Aug, 29 the Executive Director and Trails Program Manager, along with Railyard Conservancy director Christy Downs, met at the Railyard Community Room with conservation and parks professionals from five nations who were brought to Santa Fe by the Council for...