Sagebrush personal hiking blog
Gila Back Country Horsemen and NMVFO volunteers backpacked in to the Saddle Rock area near Silver City to work on trails for several days, mostly lopping.
Horse people packed in equipment and water to support the hikers.
Nights and mornings were cold, but the days got quite warm.
The area was dry, receiving little precipitation over winter.
And so trail/restoration projects begin another year. A small team of NMVFO volunteers came together for a mid-week event at Coronado Historic Site to thin dead trees and cut down invasive plants in a thickly overgrown section of the bosque.
We had three chainsaws going at once, with the rest of the volunteers “swamping” (removing and transporting) branches to huge piles for chipping/shredding later in the year.
20+ NMVFO volunteers met at the Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo, and hiked to the bosque along the Rio Grande to remove invasive tamarisk (salt cedar) and Russian olive trees, and leave the surviving native plants.
The brush was quite thick. We used hand saws to cut trees close to the ground, and then dragged cut limbs and dead trees to piles that will later be chipped/shredded.
Will this be NMVFO’s last project for the year?