Rito Peñas Negras

Rito Peñas Negras

A mini-excavator is used to auger holes as we plant thousands of willow poles. Mature willows and exclosure fencing in the background date from 2012. Beavers Wanted: Habitat Available Rito Peñas Negras is a channelized stream, with reaches that are cut off from its...
Rio Cebolla Restoration

Rio Cebolla Restoration

Our crew building a beaver dam analogue with hand tools. Bringing Life Back to Rio Cebolla: A Stream Once Shaped by Beavers, Now on the Mend High in the Santa Fe National Forest, upstream from Seven Springs Hatchery, Rio Grande Return is leading another large-scale...
Valles Caldera Restoration

Valles Caldera Restoration

The over 50 mile long boundary fenceline surrounding the Valles Caldera National Preserve had not been maintained since the early 2000s when it was still the Baca Ranch. We are working with the Forest Service on clearing deadfall, repairing and rebuilding the boundary...

State Land Office Monitoring

Santa Fe County, NM and Socorro County, NM In Fall 2021, we conducted Year 2 monitoring on two State Land Office parcels as part of an effort to better understand the impacts of land management practices and treatments in piñon-juniper systems, and to inform land...

Santa Fe County Erosion Control

Santa Fe County, NM     This erosion control project is part of a larger restoration effort on private property in Santa Fe County. For this implementation, we worked closely alongside Jan-Willem Jansens of Ecotone, who designed the treatment (original design at...

The Conservation Homestead

Galisteo Basin Preserve, NM   Regrading slopes to capture high flows within rock run downs. This project in the Galisteo Basin Preserve follows the razing of an old homestead and aims to remediate the site’s ecological function and facilitate recreational access...

Valles Caldera Fencing Removal

July 2021 The RGR YCC crew has been hard a work on a fencing removal project in the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The goal of this project is to remove roughly 30 miles of legacy cattle fence and support the re-wilding of a large section of the San Antonio Creek...

Valles Caldera Fencing Removal

July 2021 The RGR YCC crew has been hard a work on a fencing removal project in the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The goal of this project is to remove roughly 30 miles of legacy cattle fence and support the re-wilding of a large section of the San Antonio Creek...

Coyote Springs

Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, NM, 2020 – 2021 This 2020 – 2021 project encompasses the removal of non-native vegetation and revegetation with native cottonwood and willows surrounding Coyote Springs and along the adjacent Arroyo del Coyote. Work...

Bosque del Apache

Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio, NM, 2021   2021 removal of salt cedar and Russian olive from 362 acres of palustrine emergent wetland, floodplain forest, and floodplain savannah, including screwbean mesquite wet meadow. Restoring this...