Workshops for 2011 are completed.

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Since 2002, we have been the chief organizer of a collaborative restoration project along Comanche Creek, located in the western half of the Valle Vidal unit of the Carson National Forest, near the Colorado state line. This project is funded by the EPA, under its Clean Water Act mandate, and includes the Forest Service, the New Mexico Environment Department - Surface Water Quality Bureau, New Mexico Game & Fish, Trout Unlimited-Truchas Chapter, New Mexico Trout, the Valle Vidal Grazing Association, the Youth Conservation Corps, Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, Rangeland Hands, Resource Management Services, Stream Dynamics and others.

Located southwest of Socorro nestled among the foothills of the San Mateo Mountains, the Red Canyon Ranch is a jewel waiting to be polished. Hard against the boundary of the Cibola National Forest, this 320-acre property was bequeathed to The Quivira Coalition by the estate of Michael Belshaw with the express stipulation that it be "devoted to activities directed toward the preservation of the land and the wildlife, including, but not limited to, a wildlife refuge, research station, study retreat, or a demonstration ranch."

This educational and collaborative demonstration project with the Rainbow Ranch section of the Dry Cimarron, centers on grazing management and riparian restoration using techniques described in our Riparian Restoration workshops, newsletters and field guides.

In 2008, The Quivira Coalition received a River Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (RERI) Grant to restore a reach of the Mora River. The project site is located near Watrous in Mora County on Wind River Ranch. The primary land use impacts at the project site have been channelization to facilitate construction of an irrigation diversion dam and construction of an irrigation ditch on river-right and land leveling for crop production. The river is deeply incised and lacks sinuosity, and an accessible floodplain. The Wind River Ranch is privately owned and dedicated to ecosystem restoration. This project will: 1) increase sinuosity and restore floodplain access to 2,691 feet of Mora River channel, 2) Stabilize 2 headcuts that threaten the riparian area in Falcon Canyon. The induced meandering techniques used in this project will enhance the benefits derived from two ongoing projects adjacent to the area funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Partners for Wildlife Program and the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish.

The Ponil Creek Restoration Project will work towards removal of the Ponil from the list of
impaired waterways by 2011. The CWA will implement the three year project through a
collaborative process with the Philmont Scout Ranch, Vermejo Park Ranch, the Chase Ranch,
and the CS Ranch as well as the Village of Cimarron, New Mexico State Forestry, and New
Mexico Department of Game and Fish. This project will be accomplished by lowering the stream temperature through restoration of riparian forests, stream bank stabilization and erosion
control treatments.