SFCT E-Newsletter 08/07/2020
Dear Friend, We are more than halfway through summer now, and I find myself worrying about what we will do when we have to go inside again. It will be harder to get together with my family, because being inside with closed windows, even if we social distance and... SFCT E-Newsletter 07/24/2020
Dear Friend, Here we are in the midst of the coronavirus, and more and more people are talking about how the pandemic is starkly showing us that our health and wellbeing depend on the health and wellbeing of nature. The coronavirus is zoonotic, which means it is an...
SFCT E-Newsletter 07-03-2020
Dear friend, I hope this finds all of you doing well. It has been a wild ride lately! SFCT was rocked by the cancellation of our trails contract to maintain the City’s soft surface trails, but many of you stepped forward with support to fill the funding gap that...
SFCT E-Newsletter 06-12-2020
New 370-acre conservation easement on Glorieta Mesa (see article below). It has been an eventful two weeks on so many levels nationally, but also here at SFCT. Organizationally, I want to tell you what we’ve been dealing with lately. Like other nonprofits, we...
SFCT E-Newsletter 05-21-2020
We are heading into Memorial Day weekend, which celebrates the men and women who died while serving our country. This weekend, let’s also remember the over 96,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19, which feels like the fight of our lives right now. I have never...
La Tierra Trail Work Days, May and June, 2020
City trail volunteers turned their attention to La Tierra Trails in May, continuing to meet in small groups with the Trails Program Manager. On May 13 and 20, volunteers built several dips and grade reversals to direct storm drainage out of the gullied,...
SFCT E-Newsletter 05/15/2020
This was a tough week with the cancellations of the Santa Fe Opera, the Chamber Music Festival and the Bandstand—this, after all the major summer markets had already announced closures. It really hit home this week that the City is going to be hammered financially,...
SFCT E-Newsletter 05/08/2020
I decided to update my photo this week. I am confronting my discomfort with wearing a face mask! It made me furious the first time I put one on, and I also noticed how self-conscious I felt. But going into a pandemic angry isn’t really the best prescription for a... SFCT E-Newsletter 05/01/2020
I think you are going to like the Banff film we chose for today’s email: The River’s Call. It resonated with me when the narrator said that kayaking is “the art of being yourself in a crappy situation.” We are pretty blessed because we don’t really have to...Upcoming Events
Nov
27
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10:00 am La Tierra Trails Work Day @ La Tierra Trails, La Cuchara Trailhead
La Tierra Trails Work Day @ La Tierra Trails, La Cuchara Trailhead 
Nov 27 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Come help SFCT volunteers maintain La Tierra Trails on behalf of the City of Santa Fe. Bring work boots, long pants/shirt sleeves, sun protection, snacks, and water. I’ll bring the tools! La Cuchara Trailhead is[...]