Socorro Bosque Cleanup Oct 2025

Save Our Bosque Task Force held their monthly second- Saturday- of – the- month cleanup, at Otero Park. The turnout tends to be highly variable, and this month the crowd was teeny-tiny, though the weather was perfect. Otero Park is along the Socorro Resupply Route of the Grand Enchantment Trail, and I have fond memories.

Broken glass bottles along a rock embankment next to the parking area continue to be a problem.

The Rio Grande, visible from the park, had strong flow.

Big news may be announced soon about this section of bosque trail. Stay tuned.

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Limestone Canyon 2025

Six NMVFO volunteers and two USFS staff joined 30-odd Albuquerque Wildlife Federation volunteers at Limestone Canyon in the San Mateo Mountains south of the VLA, for a long-running water restoration project.

We built or improved one-rock dams, baffles, and beaver-analog dams to capture sediment and duff, add more turns to the channel, and slow the water in peak flow.

Thanks goes out to AWF for teaching us their evolving techniques for water restoration, based on the work of Bill Zeedyk.