Category: Trail Projects

Heart of the Gila led a trail project from the Gila River to near the summit of Granny Mountain, clearing corridor, building cairns, and repairing some tread. We met October 5 at the trailhead on Sheep Corral Canyon Road (high clearance vehicles recommended, 7k elevation) and hiked 8 miles down to the river and camped at the base of Granny Mountain Trail, after 9 or so water crossings, at elevation 5.2k. The Gila Chapter of Back Country Horsemen NM helped ferry down gear and food, and provided meals.

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On National Public Lands Day about 50 volunteers and Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) and Forest Service staff came together at Hopewell Lake, near Tres Piedras New Mexico, to do a few hours of trail work and celebrate the completion of more than 100 miles of CDT through the Carson National Forest.

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Three members (Ed, Larry, and myself) of the NM Volunteers for the Outdoors (NMVFO) joined staff from NM Game and Fish, Rocky Mountain Youth Corp, and other groups to assist staff from US Fish and Wildlife to gather saltgrass from Bernardo Waterfowl Area to replant at Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge during National Public Lands Day the following Saturday.

Saltgrasss sod was gathered in large sheets by a small Caterpillar, or in small 1-foot clumps by volunteers with shovels, and loaded onto trucks and trailers for later transplant.

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