Conservation
WHAT: Our annual member BBQ will be held on Saturday, May 30 in conjunction with a stream restoration clinic led by Bill Zeedyk, an expert in wetland and stream habitats. Areas on the Rio Cebolla in the Santa Fe National Forest that we had targeted for restoration work have been closed to public access in response to the listing of the NM Meadow Jumping Mouse as an endangered species. We have permission to conduct this event on a private in-holding on the Rio Cebolla. We will learn about techniques that reduce erosion and riparian degradation and improve fish habitat. These same ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair Save the date! Our annual BBQ will be held on Saturday, 30 May, in conjunction with a stream restoration clinic led by Bill Zeedyk, an expert in riparian and piscine habitats. Bill brings a lifetime of experience in natural resource conservation to the practice of river, wetland and riparian restoration. Upon retiring from the U.S. Forest Service with thirty-four years experience in habitat management, Bill founded a small consulting business with the mission of motivating others by developing and advancing simple techniques for healing incised streams and gullied wetlands. The event will be held alongside ... Read More
Fish habitat is being reconstructed on two sections of the Red River - one adjacent to Eagle Rock Lake and another just upstream from the Red River Fish Hatchery. Those projects intend to provide more places for fish to hold and improve the stream ecology in the hopes that it will create a more prolific fishery. The project near the fish hatchery also includes the removal of a concrete dam that blocked fish from moving upstream. A two-year study released in February found significant levels of a bacteria in the San Juan and Animas rivers that indicate the presence of human waste. Officials involved ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair New Mexico Trout has a tradition of welcoming the Spring opening of FR 376 between the Gilman Tunnels and Porter's Landing with a volunteer trash pickup. That Forest Service road provides access to our Rio Guadalupe home water and it accumulates a lot of roadside trash over a season's heavy use by the many people who visit that corridor. Doing these annual cleanups is one way we can express our thanks for the wonderful trout fishing opportunities the Rio Guadalupe affords, while we help maintain it in a state that we like to visit. Twenty ... Read More
Here is a copy of Ron Loehman's conservation presentation from the Conclave: 2015ConclaveConservation ... Read More
From Land and Water Program Director, Mollie Walton, PhD January 2015 Newsletter The New Mexico Wetland Roundtables are part of a Wetlands Program Development Grant from EPA Region 6 to foster partnerships and collaboration for the restoration and protection of wetlands and riparian resources in New Mexico and are conducted on a semi-annual schedule. If you have not attended in the past, we would like you to see what the New Mexico Wetlands Roundtable is all about. The next meeting is March 26 (Thursday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm). This meeting will also be in celebration of Bill Zeeyk's 80th birthday. Presentations will ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair From the January 2015 Newsletter Last month a small delegation from New Mexico Trout met with Erik Taylor, who assumed the District Ranger position last August for the Jemez District of the Santa Fe National Forest. Erik previously was the District Ranger for the Caddo-Lyndon B. Johnson National Grasslands in Texas, and before that he was with the Klamath National Forest in California. Erik began his job as District Ranger shortly after the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse was listed as an endangered species. Much of the Jumping Mouse's identified habitat is in the Jemez District, ... Read More