Category: Trail Projects

Fourteen NMVFO volunteers camped at the site of the decommissioned JFK Campground on the west side of the Manzano Mountains for a weekend to improve trails. The first day we went on a long hike up Comanche Trail and cleared downed trees, along with lopping.

We did not manage to get to the crest, and will need to clear a good quantity of trees starting on a later project.

Good food and conversation followed.

The following day we worked on Trigo Trail, and split into 3 teams: lopping, sawing, and grafitti removal. Two teams got as far as the falls.

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.