Sagebrush personal hiking blog
Gila Back Country Horsemen and NMVFO volunteers, and members of the new Kingston chapter of Southern NM Trail Alliance brushed 1.3 miles of the Emory Pass Scenic Trail #796 on a weekday project. We worked downhill from the pass, and then shuttled back to cars, or vice versa.
I had not been aware of this trail before. Highly recommended, great views. We still have a few miles left to lop, but the lower portion does not have such thick vegetation, and should go quicker.
A small team of NMVFO volunteers return again to Coronado Historic Site to thin dead trees in the bosque, using three chainsaws and lots of carrying branches.
We will stop work in this bosque for a few months, so wild turkey are not disturbed.
Back in the fall.
20 NMVFO and Amigos de la Sevilleta volunteers worked with UNM staff to dismantle a huge rainfall study array in the far NE corner of Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, that had reached its end-of-life.
The array was constructed with metal pipe and lexan sheets, held together with thousands of self-tapping screws. The structure was used to restrict rainfall for ecological study, by LTER, in partnership with Sevilleta.
Volunteers used cordless tools and muscles to completely disassemble one of a handful of arrays on the Refuge. Materials were carried to trucks, which shuttled to nearby dumpsters, for later recycling.
A big thanks goes out to all who attended, for a successful project. It was amazing to see a large group self-organize and work so well together on an unfamiliar task.
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