Category: Trail Projects

Four NMVFO volunteers met at New Canyon Campground in the Manzanos and hiked up to Osha Peak, sawing and lopping on a beautiful fall day.

Trail maintenance season is almost over!

About 28 volunteers celebrated National Public Lands Day by building 1.0 miles of the 3.5 mile Landavaso Trail just west of Magdalena. Socorro Trails partnered with BLM Socorro and several Magdalena volunteers, with donations from Socorro Walmart and Tumbleweeds Cafe/SCOPE.

Mike and Marty from BLM had already roughed out the trail with a custom-built drag-plow, so volunteers used McLeods and pick-mattocks to remove grass and rock and smooth out trail, in rolling grassland among scattered juniper and piñon.

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps is expected to finish the trail next month. We look forward to hiking this trail… often!

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• Landavaso Trail Scouting 2023

Six NMVFO volunteers returned to the Jemez, picking up litter along dispersed campsites along Forest Road 144, in a joint project with NMWild and the Jemez Ranger District.

I do not know of a way to make gripping photos of people using litter pickup tools. But we did find that a litter picker makes a good improvised selfie-stick…