Category: Trail Projects

Volunteers from NMVFO teamed up with the Commonweal Conservancy to remove barb-wire fencing on the ~10k acre Preserve south of Santa Fe.

Ten volunteers from NMVFO joined volunteers with the Upper Pecos Watershed Association for an Earth Day litter cleanup along the Pecos River, part of a larger one-day effort spanning between Mora NM down to Pecos TX. Our crew worked on user trails in the Rainy Day and Dalton Creek fishing areas.

At Rainy we came upon the remains of an old sluice way, which might be remains of an old mill.

Nine volunteers from the Gila Chapter of NM Backcountry Horsemen (BCH-Gila) and NMVFO teamed up for a 4-day backpacking trail project along Bear Canyon Trail in the Gila National Forest. We met at the trailhead on Fiero Road (past the village of Fiero and an old iron mine, north of the Chino copper mine) where horsepeople loaded gear for us.

Nights and mornings were cold, but BCH-Gila brought along a “hot tent”, heated by a packable titanium woodstove.

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