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LA BAJADA VILLAGE Sur viving the Depression (1929–1941), Enduring World War II (1942–1947), Abandonment, 1950s Drought, Revival (1960–80), Struggle to Remain a Village (1980–2017) PART III OF THREE ARTICLES BY HILARIO E. ROMERO Introduction It is truly amazing that the village of La Bajada is still functioning. The concluding article of this series outlines challenges the village endured. The U.S. Census of 1920 shows the Montoya family as the most numerous of families in the village. By the 1940s they were joined by the Gallegos, Sánchez, Ortiz, Gonzales, Dimas, Baca, Armijo, Lucero, Valdez, Martínez, Lueses and Benavides families, among others. With the arrival of the U.S. highway system and the ultimate bypassing of the village in 1932, La Bajada village struggled to subsist and deal with the massive changes that came in waves over the next eight decades. Once again, the greatest impacts were those instigated by the government of the United States, city and county governments and the droughts that occurred almost every decade since the 1920s. Throughout the decades since the Great Depression, the village went from losing most of its Land Grant with all of the pasture and common lands needed to continue an agricultural and ranching existence—to devastation from recurring droughts, and struggling to reclaim water rights, which were dimished from time to time.
The village lost most of its Land Grant with all of the pasture and common lands needed to continue agriculture and ranching. Surviving the Depression, 1929-1941 “Black Thursday” or the Stock Market crash of 1929 sent shockwaves throughout the United States, especially in the larger cities. Unfortunately, President Hoover downplayed the crisis and blamed it on the Mexicans who arrived in the U.S., escaping the Mexican Revolution. By the “Roaring Twenties” many of those immigrants became U.S. citizens and an important part of the national workforce. President Hoover, with advice from his staff, inaugurated a mass deportation of U.S. citizens of Mexican origin. Between 1929 and 1936, an estimated 500,000 to 2 million, of whom 60 percent were citizens, were deported. Residents of the village of La Bajada who were employed in the wage economy, along with their relatives and friends, initially took the news in stride. But the administration in New Mexico was unprepared after a year of inaction. In early 1931, Arthur Seligman, governor of New Mexico, began the state’s first unemployment initiative by using a combined $5 million in federal aid, building and highway funds. The new alignment for US 66/85, built three miles south of La Bajada village, was completed by the summer of 1932. This bypass put an end to the Walden service station and camp but provided employment for some village families. Their road would no longer be graded and maintained by the state. A decade earlier, the U.S. Congress passed the General Land Exchange Act of 1922, which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to obtain title to privately owned land within National Forest boundaries, (Gerald W. Williams. The UDSA Forest Service: The First Century, USDA, 2000) including the Spanish and Pueblo Land Grants. The Majada Land Grant was reduced to 22,000 acres in 1930. What was left of that grant, along with the Caja del Río Grant, would be sold to the Forest Service. It was now three decades after the droughts of 1891-92, when the Forest Service made changes in the vegetation, replacing more palatable forbs and grasses with woody shrubs and trees not native to the area. They were unable to survive in the New Mexico environment. After Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he initiated legislation to address problems that arose after two years of inaction by the former administration. In New Mexico, according to Suzanne Forrest in her book The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal (Albuquerque, UNM Press, 1989, p.79), by 1932 estimates of 7,000-10,000 former Land Grant villagers from the middle and upper Río CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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Grande Valley working in the beet and potato fields, sheep camps, mines and smelters in the San Luís Valley of Colorado (also in Wyoming and Montana) were laid off. In La Bajada, many resident heads of family had secured similar jobs near their village, while others went north for work. Those who remained struggled to make a living in the village in a time of drought while fighting for their water rights. In 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of Public Works Act (FERA) was passed. It appropriated $3.3 billion nationwide to provide employment and stabilize purchasing power to help revive the economy. By the time funding arrived in New Mexico, it averted an emergency brought on by dwindling village food reserves due to drought and consumption. The villagers were able to ride out the year and hope the drought would end. FERA programs—using healthcare materials distributed by the New Mexico Department of Public Health based on middle-class Anglo American standards—also tried to teach young poverty-stricken Spanish-American girls post-natal care for their childbearing mothers. Montoya house, 1957. Courtesy Center for Southwest Research (UNM Libraries)
At this time, Valentín Montoya was living in the village with his wife, Amalia, and a daughter. They were receiving relief funds because Valentín could no longer graze his sheep on La Bajada or La Majada mesas due to the drought. Later, in 1933, the Roosevelt administration pushed through the Civilian Conservation Corps, (the official title was Emergency Conservation Work), another program under the act that provided funding to offset unemployment for men between 18 and 25 years old. They were sent to camps in New Mexico for forest thinning, soil conservation and provided grazing services through the Bureau of Reclamation. The majority were young Spanish-American villagers who were paid $30 per month. They sent $25 per month home to their families to help get them off relief. (Forrest, pp. 112-116)
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With the arrival of the U.S. highway system bypassing the village in 1932, La Bajada struggled to subsist.
San Miguel Church, 1957. Courtesy Center for Southwest Research (UNM Libraries)
Another New Deal program, the Hispanic Land Reform Program, began under the Resettlement Administration after the Tewa Basin Study of 1935 had outlined the realities of problems facing northern New Mexico villagers (Forrest, p. 143-144). The program was set up to purchase lands (including Land Grants)—some still in the hands of villagers or lands that had been taken from them by the Court of Private Land Claims between 1891 and 1904—then offer temporary grazing permits, specifically to those families. The families were also offered loans. However, due to underestimation by officials regarding cash profits versus costs of transportation to markets and expenditures, it was impossible for ranchers to pay back the loans (Forrest, p.145). The Caja del Río and La Majada Land Grants were among several designated for this program in 1937, and range surveys, maps and a range management plan were completed by 1939 by the Soil Conservation Service. La Majada Land Company was formed by a group from Colorado that leased much of the Land Grant for its own profit. In 1953, management for the area was passed to the Forest Service and eventually renamed the Caja del Río Unit.
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These well-meaning attempts by New Deal programs to solve Depression-era problems in New Mexico did not fit in well with most rural Spanish-Americans. Residents of La Bajada lost their grazing lands, used for centuries prior to the arrival of the United States of North America, and now had to apply for a permit and pay to use them. They were proud, self-sustaining extended families that only needed a short-term financial boost and the return of the snowpacks and monsoons to ride out the Depression years. Some benefited more that others, but many became dependent on relief, causing them to move into dilapidated city neighborhoods with low rents. Many became landless workers who provided unskilled labor in the cities.
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Enduring World War II, 1942-47 There are estimates that claim New Mexico had the highest per-capita enlistment rate of any state in the Union during World War II. Many young, rural Spanish-American men signed up because they were unable to find steady work. La Bajada village no longer had a major highway passing through it, which had provided seasonal work, tourism, roadside sales of produce and fruit and road services. However, the Soil Conservation Service did assist the village with funding for a concrete/basalt headgate, flumes and sluices for the acequia, which dates to the early Spanish colonial period. In La Bajada, many young men decided to join the armed forces. That left the older men to try to continue to make a CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
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t the start of the movie Excalibur, when rival groups of roving medieval knights go in search of the Holy Grail, the prevailing culture’s worldview has given rise to dark, heavy armor and apparel, which make the humans clunky and repulsive. As the people of that era merge with their own creations, their society reshapes the people’s consciousness in endless circles of cause and effect.
Then, a sudden revolution in consciousness occurs, and the armor and garments become elegant and resplendent. This revolution has a comparable effect on the bearing and comportment of the people and, in turn, on their aspirations and the development of their society.
Something akin has been taking place in human society with regard to the ubiquitous mode of transportation with which we negotiate the world. The vehicles in which we encapsulate ourselves, which now incorporate computer and cellphone technologies, shape the world in which we live, as well as shaping our own beings in profound ways. It was not all that long ago when humans made use of completely different technologies for transporting our goods and ourselves. We created unique societies that possessed a particular consciousness and set of values that reflected an understanding of ourselves, our relationship to each other and our experience of space, time and the Earth. What we know about the network of paths radiating outward from Chaco Canyon, from the running traditions of modern day Pueblo people, as well as from the unassimilated tribes of northern and central México such as the Tarahumara and Huichol, all point to the fact that running, walking, pilgrimaging and even dancing were (and for some, continue to be) integral to the lives of people, their
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Endless traffic along Riverside Drive, Española, New Mexico communications, their economic activity, and especially their spiritual life. Traversing long distances by foot was not unrelated to the sun’s journey across the sky or the effort that other living beings made to fulfill their purpose. From México came the pochteca or itinerant merchants, who carried hundreds of pounds of goods such as pottery, feathers, chocolate or obsidian, placed within woven nets strapped to the head. In the Pueblo world, there were runners who carried news from village to village or those who helped the sun rise during ceremonies. To walk or run was to know the land in its most intimate detail and to appreciate its gifts—resins, clays, herbs, seeds, nuts, fruits, stones, wood, water, weather, animals, etc. Only with this level of intimacy among people, the land and sky could survival be certain for the original inhabitants of this continent, where no beasts of burden existed to pull carts along manmade roads as in Europe. Walking and running also made the people fit and trim and able to withstand the rigors of climate and topography. The people and the land were one in every way. Emergence and migration stories of the first peoples of this continent make this quite clear. The horse, although native to the Americas, had migrated to other parts of the world, including Asia and Central Asia, before becoming extinct on this hemisphere
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To what degree we are willing to sacrifice our open lands, our few remaining pristine vistas and community spaces to the automobile?
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several thousand years ago. When the Greeks first saw the mounted Thracians, ancient inhabitants of Central Asia and the Caucus, on horseback, they became alarmed, much as Native Americans would be three or four thousand years later at the sight of mounted Spanish horsemen. In both cases it was believed that the horse and rider were a single creature. Only because of this animal were the early Spanish explorers and conquerors able to cover such enormous distances across what seemed to be an endless continent. Among the native peoples of México, only the Tlaxcalan allies of the Spanish were allowed to mount on horseback, until the
horse was captured by nomadic tribes in northern México and what is now the western half of the United States. The horse thoroughly revolutionized the lives of the Plains tribes from Montana to Texas— especially the Crow, Sioux, Apache and Comanche. The horse enabled them to pull travois with people’s worldly possessions. The Spanish Mexicans of this area, together with the Pueblo people, did use horses, but over the long run of centuries, they lived out a difficult-to-achieve interethnic co-existence, and made more extensive use of the humble burro. This beast of burden, of which many images still exist in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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Spanish and Indian languages of New Mexico, evolved in the Middle East, North Africa and Spain. It was subsequently brought to México and Nuevo México, where it became an indispensable feature of the community and landscape. On burros’ backs, woodcutters hauled firewood from the mountains, and farmers transported produce to villages whose climates were better suited to raising sheep, goats and tough grains and legumes. People also rode burros. In their comings and goings they became pacemakers in a world that moved very slowly, a world where phenomena and events took on deep resonance and meaning. We can hardly imagine that in today’s world of constantly ringing cellphones and roaring traffic. By the early 20th century, before the advent of the motorcar, horses had become more common in northern New Mexico. The majority Mexicano population regularly tended to move around on horse-drawn wagons and buggies. The Pueblo and Navajo peoples also made use of these technologies, which greatly enhanced their mobility and carrying capacity, not to mention widening their social circles. Illustrating this was the story my father told of his parents’ annual trip by horsedrawn wagon from their village of Las Truchas, high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, to Santa Fe. Only when the likelihood of snow had disappeared, would they risk this arduous trip, which took two days one way and included a layover at the home of a certain Pino family in Tesuque Pueblo. There they would be welcomed, their animals unhitched, watered and fed by their kind hosts, and they were offered unconditional lodging and hospitality. Early the next day they would make their
way into Santa Fe after tackling Tesuque Hill on roads that could best be described as rutted paths. After a day of conducting business and a night spent camping along the Santa Fe River, they would make their way down the same treacherous hill. Once again, they would seek lodging at the home of their Tesuque Pueblo compadres. Their chance to reciprocate always took place from Aug. 8-12, around the Feast of San Lorenzo at Picurís Pueblo. On those days, the Pino family would make its annual sojourn to and from Picurís via Las Truchas. Upon their arrival at my grandparents’ home, my grandfather, Don Desiderio López, would welcome the family, unhitch their team of horses, lead them to food and water and beckon the Pinos to the family table, where my grandmother, Doña Martina, served up a big meal. They would spend the night telling stories into the wee hours, and then on the next day proceed to Picurís. Following the feast day on the 10th, the Pino family would return to my grandparents’ home and once again spend the night. Those age-old arrangements of a cooperative inter-ethnic society, together with the unspoiled landscape of northern New Mexico, went out the window with the arrival of the motorcar. Exempt from the Industrial Revolution that had overtaken Europe and the rest of the United States, New Mexico still did everything by hand until the dawn of the 20th century. The automobile was pretty much the first machine that anyone in these parts had ever seen. In fact, “máquina,” the Spanish name for machine, is to this very day, the Tiwa name for automobile. The first Nuevo Mexicanos who witnessed the sputtering and convulsive Model-T
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Fords that made their way up La Bajada were awestruck by those mechanical beasts and quick to ascribe to them the workings of the devil. They were not totally off, given the heartache automobiles have caused in the way of fatal accidents, DWIs and eternal financial bondage to lending institutions, mechanics and the petroleum industry. Not to mention the disruption of communities and despoilment of land by highways, billboards and urban sprawl. Currently everything hinges on the car, whereas relatively recently, everything in northern New Mexico hinged on the acequia system, agriculture and economic self-sufficiency. In Española, on a stretch of a little over two miles, no fewer than 12 national fast-food restaurant chains vie for the more than 7,000 motorists that daily traverse that road. In turn, the easements along the roads and highways of Española, with a carpet of cups, drinking straws, napkins, wrappers and containers, reflect a way of life on the run, in which we live inside our cars and have lost sight of the land we once farmed and loved. In this and other northern New Mexico communities, parking lots abound, but there is nary a park or open field. Until recently, the road from Santa Fe was a spiritual adventure with magnificent views where one could stop and ponder if so moved. With the road’s reconstruction into a superhighway with frontage roads on either side, the same journey has become a more subdued passage through a manmade landscape.
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What I find to be most problematic is the danger we expose ourselves to every time we travel at such immense speeds. With a single slip-up by any one person, any of us could face annihilation at any time. Korean family enjoying corn on the cob in late model car. Spanish Market, Santa Fe
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ways a huge asset to the reconfigured economy of New Mexico. The automobile has made it possible to commute to work at Los Alamos National Laboratories, government offices in Santa Fe and elsewhere. It has made possible the hauling of resources still important to people’s lives, such as timber, wood, stone, clay, hay and farm animals. It has opened up other vistas and lands and made possible long trips to see family and friends living in other states. Most significantly, perhaps, large trucks now bring in imported food and goods, without which the inhabitants now cannot live, despite that before the 20th century, they never had need of these things. To me, the question to ponder at this historic juncture of possible worldwide ecological collapse is not whether the automobile is good or bad but rather to what degree we are willing to sacrifice our open lands, our few remaining pristine vistas and community spaces to the automobile. Having observed the evolution of northern New Mexico across a lifetime beginning in the 1950s, I can vouch, without a doubt, that much of it is quickly morphing into a kind of vapid southern California, with ever-increasing congestion, omnipresent white noise, frenetic living and hazy vistas. Perhaps some day soon we can make a significant breakthrough in consciousness that will provide us with a totally different way of transporting ourselves and our goods, one more in keeping with ecological principles and a human scale. When that happens, perhaps we will look back on the automobile age as those people in Excalibur were able to look back on a previous age in which people moved about in the twilight of human possibility. I will welcome such a time. ■ Alejandro López is a native northern New Mexico writer, photographer and educator.
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intage photos spanning 50 years, by two of New Mexico’s longtime residents and photographic chroniclers, Lisa Law and Ray Belcher, are on exhibit this summer at Edition One Gallery. Both photographers offer insight into lands and residents of New Mexico. The exhibition features a selection of oneof-a-kind prints.
Lisa Law has photographed the shifting tides of American culture. Her photography often reflects a sense of intimacy and spontaneity. Law is known for chronicling the era of hippie migration from the West and East coasts to New Mexico, along with their intersections with elders from Taos Pueblo and the communities of Truchas, El Rito, Abiquú and Santa Fe.
Ray Belcher came from California to Santa Fe in the mid-1970s, having earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, which he used to travel and photograph. Belcher is one of the few photographers who still utilize the black-and-white silvergelatin printing process. His work focuses primarily on the skies and landscapes of Galisteo and Santa Fe.
The exhibition runs through July 21, 2017. Edition One Gallery is at 1036 Canyon Road in Santa Fe. For more information, call 505.570.5385, email info@editionone. gallery, or visit www.editionone.gallery
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Curandera-midwife La Fernanda Pacheco, her sister Tiofila and husband Jacobo Martínez, Peñasco, NM. ©1971
Pilar and Solar on Law farm, Truchas, New Mexico, © 1973
Juan Padilla plowing Llano Quemado field, Truchas, NM © 1972
Jook Savage Ranch, Abiquiú, NM © 1969
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The solar array, which will sit on seven acres on the Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) campus in El Rito, is part of an ambitious six-year plan by Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc. (KCEC) and Guzman Renewable Energy Partners (GREP), to provide KCEC customers with 100 percent solar energy on sunny days. The plan entails building 35 one-megawatt solar arrays throughout KCEC’s coverage area. Seven arrays, including in El Rito, are scheduled to be built in 2017.
An opportunity for collaboration on training, internships and potential job opportunities NNMC’s El Rito campus has been underutilized for several years due to a variety of factors, including high utility costs. Utilities were not getting any cheaper, and the college, with consecutive state funding cuts, was not getting any richer. However, as the adage goes, with darkness comes light, and an opportunity presented itself in the form of sunlight. “When I took the job as president of Northern New Mexico College in October 2016, one of the most important issues I heard from our community was that we had to find a way to bring life back to our El Rito campus,” said Dr. Richard J. Bailey. “Many people told me that the biggest obstacle to progress was the cost of utilities, so we had to explore ways to lower our energy footprint by embracing opportunities in renewable energy,” said Bailey, a retired Air Force officer who lives in El Rito. John Ussery, a renewable-energy advocate and friend of Bailey’s, told him about KCEC’s solar plans and encouraged him to meet with the company that powers El Rito campus.
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Within the first couple of weeks on the job, Bailey met Luís Reyes, Kit Carson’s CEO, at one of his co-op outreach sessions. “I made it clear that the college was very interested in anything we could do to partner with KCEC on renewable energy,”said Bailey. Recognizing that such a project would dramatically decrease electricity costs in the long-term; not only for the campus, but the whole town of El Rito and the wider KCEC service area, Bailey pitched El Rito campus as a possible solar array site. Bailey took the idea to El Rito community during a public forum held at the campus in February 2017, where he asked 75 of the college’s neighbors for permission to proceed with the array. “The support was unanimous,” Bailey said. “The community was excited that the college was taking serious steps to embracing renewable energy because they know that it’s a first step to revitalizing the campus.”
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f you regularly make the journey north on NM 554, next winter part of the landscape you are used to seeing will begin to change. Upon entering El Rito, instead of scattered chamisa and sage, you will be greeted by about 4,000 shimmering blue and silver solar panels that could well be mistaken for a body of water from a distance.
Solar panels in northern New Mexico
Several meetings among the college, KCEC and Guzman Renewable Energy Partners were then held, and on May 6, 2017, KCEC officially announced the campus as one of its solar array sites. “I think that all schools, including universities and colleges, should have most of their energy come from renewable energy,” said KCEC Chief Executive Officer Luís Reyes. “I believe that placing an array on El Rito campus may be one of several solutions to revitalize the campus and give more rural New Mexicans opportunities for higher education.” The energy company hopes to have the array operational by early fall 2017. The El Rito campus of Northern New Mexico College Bailey also envisions the solar array as an opportunity for educational collaboration between NNMC and KCEC.“The partnership could result in NNMC’s engineering students receiving hands-on training from one of the most cutting-edge energy companies in New Mexico,” he said. Reyes agrees. “KCEC sees the opportunity for collaboration on training, internships and potential job opportunities in solar and battery careers,” he said. For NNMC’s President Bailey, seeing gleaming solar panels on his daily commute will be a welcome sight. ■ Mohammad Ali Musawi is a New Mexicobased journalist and staff writer/reporter at Northern New Mexico College.
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PERFORMANCES AT NNMC, ESPAÑOLA, NEW MEXICO Local performers took the stage at Northern New Mexico College’s Nick Salazar Center for the Arts Theater recently to kick off the school’s first annual Renewable Energy Festival.
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hen the Española Community Market (ECM) Cooperative opened its doors on the city’s main street almost five years ago, its founders’ intent was clear. They wanted to start a cooperatively run business that could provide the valley’s residents with organic and locally grown foods. They believed in the typical values associated with a co-op: autonomy, selfresponsibility, democracy, community, equity and community solidarity. The co-op’s mission was embodied in its by-laws: “ECM is organized to provide high-quality, natural and organic products at the lowest prices possible, as well as education [about the products it offers] and information about cooperatives, for the social and economic benefit of the community at large and the membership.”
equipment and plant maintenance, advertising and volunteer coordination. The store prospers today only because of the tireless work of loyal volunteers who are the friendly faces of the ECM and who relate to the clientele as store owners because they are ECM members themselves and are usually “foodies” or at least care about nutrition, naturalness and freshness. As a token of appreciation, the store offers its volunteers a discount on purchases, depending on the number of hours worked. Regular members get a shopping trip discount once a month after they sign up for a year’s membership.
At the beginning, membership drives and fundraising were successful, with 67 families becoming lifetime members with contributions of up to $300. In addition, over 100 families became regular members. Startup funds were raised from a few foundation donors as well. More than 60 local farmers and food producers have become the co-op’s reliable sources for fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products and eggs. In 2016 ECM paid over $25,000 for those products to be delivered so they could be sold in the store. Some of the principal local suppliers include Camino de Paz School & Farm (goat meat and dairy products); RZ Bees (honey); Taos Roasters (coffee beans); KJ Farms (eggs), La Cosecha de Norte (vegetables), and Tortilleria Temosachi (handmade tamales, wheat and corn tortillas). La Montañita Co-op has been especially supportive of ECM, contributing retailing and marketing advice, store displays and funds for inventory. La Montañita’s wholesaling arm— Cooperative Distribution Center (CDC)—has also become ECM’s main supplier for shelf items that complement the co-op’s featured products: locally sourced fruits and vegetables. Among the products sourced from CDC and other wholesalers are those that are canned, packaged or frozen and are organic or glutenfree or certified to be free from pesticides or preservatives. The store carries meat products from regional ranchers or poultry farmers that certify their livestock and poultry to be free from hormones on and antibiotics. Many such products are not found in grocery stores in the Española Valley, but some can
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through the CDC arm of La Montañita. The Española Community Market Cooperative store, located at 312 Paseo de Oñate near the old El Río Theater on Española’s main street, is open for business 16 hours per week: 3-7 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays, and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturdays. Staffed with volunteers, the store has no full-time employees and is cooperatively managed by a board of directors consisting of up to nine unpaid members who contribute their time and energy toward managing and supporting the store’s operation. Other members contribute time and services in performing tasks such as bookkeeping,
The store accepts personal checks and credit or EBT cards as payment for purchases. A special grant from a healthcare provider has allowed the store to participate, for a limited time, in SNAP-UP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), whereby, after a regular purchase, an EBT cardholder can receive a coupon of equal value for an additional purchase that can be paid out of the grant. The current funding level from the grant will allow ECM to continue this benefit for a few more months. The store is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month and has invited everyone to attend an ECM membership meeting. For more information, call 505.747.3006 or visit www.espanolacommunitymarket.com ■ Andy Salazar, a native of northern New Mexico, has been president of the Española Community Market board since January 2016.
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HISTORY OF LA BAJADA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 living without the strong backs of the younger generation. However, the young men did not forget their families and sent large portions of their pay home. Valentín Montoya, the sheepherder, was now 81 years old and lived with his wife, Amalia, and their 29-year-old daughter, Josie. During that decade, the village’s population dwindled to a few determined families who subsisted on a few stock and cash crops. Some of the young men returned in 1945-46 and settled at the village once again. Others never made it home and were buried in the National Cemetery in Santa Fe.
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Abandonment —1950s Drought La Bajada always dealt with being at the end of the line for its share of the Santa Fe River watershed water. During wet years residents were able to irrigate their fields throughout the summers and take home good yields. However, in 1952, a severe drought hit the Southwest and parts of the Midwest. It exceeded the drought of the 1930s, and in some areas of New Mexico it lasted eight years. At La Bajada, it lasted until 1957. The village remained vacant, except for periodic visits by some families who maintained their houses. (R.L. Nace & E.J. Pluhhowski Drought of the 1950s with Special Reference to the Midcontinent Geological Survey Water Supply Paper #1804, U.S. printing office, Washington: 1965, pp. 5178). In 1957, Charles Lange documented the area with photographs while doing research for his book on the history of Cochiti Pueblo. L–R: Eluterio Montoya and his wife, Buenaventura Gonzales. Behind them are Filemon Lucero and Darrin Muenzberg. 1975.
Revival of the Village, 1960-1980 By the early 1960s, several families had returned to the village and continued to renovate and plaster their houses, clean and repair the acequia, the water system from the spring, and till their fields. Slowly but surely, those families were able to breathe new life into La Bajada, and additional families, who were descendants of Spanish colonial families, began to return. In 1964, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation condemned 135 acres of the village to make way for Cochiti Dam, despite protests and a lawsuit by Cochiti Pueblo against the Army Corps of Engineers. Construction began in 1965, and the impoundment of water was initiated in 1973.
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In the early 1970s, San Miguel Church, with its original base, walls and collapsed roof, was saved from ruin by Florinda Lucero Barreras, daughter of Cipriano and Guadalupe Lucero. She and her husband, Enrique Barreras, devoted their time, resources and artwork from her studio/gallery at the village. Barreras brought the village back to life and revived La Fiesta de San Miguel as “Country Day,” an annual fundraiser for the San Miguel church. Her final rosary was recited there, with the funeral mass at Guadalupe Church and burial at Guadalupe Cemetery in Peña Blanca on May 9, 1999.
La Bajada field being irrigated and pastured. 2016.
In 1915 there was a mine just over one mile upriver from La Bajada Village in the Santa Fe River canyon where copper and silver were extracted for a short time. Uranium was mined at that site in 1956 and again from 1962 to 1966, when the Bureau of Land Management leased the mine to Lone Star Mining and Development. La Bajada residents were concerned about contamination. The company promised jobs. By 1979, the BLM suspended action on renewal of Lone Star’s lease of the abandoned mine due to the potential environmental impact. In 1985, due to contamination concerns, some reclamation work on the mine was done. In 1995, Tim Whitworth, with the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, studied the area, wrote and reported that if Santa Fe River floodwaters were to flush large amounts of mine waste into Cochiti Lake, water quality would be degraded, and recreational uses such as swimming and fishing could be adversely impacted. He concluded, however, that it was unlikely that acid mine drainage would significantly impact the lake because of the slightly alkaline Santa Fe River water. In 2007, the Department of Natural Sciences at New Mexico Highlands University did a biota study on the site after the New Mexico Environment Department concluded that the lower portion below the village of La Bajada met EPA water quality standards for radionuclides. Biota had not been included in the EPA’s study. NMHU graduate students, advised by professors, collected samples of contaminants and macroinverterbrates. It is surprising that, with La Bajada being the closest residential area, the village was not mentioned in either study.
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In 1971, Miguel Leyva, Valentín Montoya and Ignacio Romero, commissioners of La Bajada Community Acequia, filed a declaration with the New Mexico State Engineer’s office reflecting an 1827 priority date. (Arnold Valdez, “La Bajada Community Ditch and Water System” Chronicles of the Trail, Summer/Fall 2011, p. 20) The acequia actually dated to Spanish colonial times. By 1975, the District Court for Santa Fe County issued an order to the State Engineer to conduct a hydrographic survey for claims on the use of water from the Santa Fe Stream System. (Hydrographic Survey of 1976, NM State Engineer’s Office)
The former Walden tourist camp is now a Cochiti Pueblo residence.
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From the 1960s to the present, the village’s primary crop has been alfalfa, for feeding livestock and for sales. Water was plentiful and available in the 1960s and 1970s, thanks to snowmelt and
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the monsoons through most of the summers. Corn, beans, squash and chile had always been the preferred crops for centuries, but during this period the villagers also produced tomatoes, carrots, spring onions and asparagus. Peaches, plums, cherries and apricots were planted to replace the orchards that were lost in the droughts of the 1930s and 1950s. (Valdez, p. 20) In May of 1974, with the decline of the steam-powered locomotives (beginning in the 1950s), Atchitson Topeka Santa Fe Railroad officials drafted a termination agreement with the Village of La Bajada and returned all water rights used by the railroad, along with the pipeline and water tanks to La Bajada Community Ditch, Inc. (Valdez, p.26) Struggle to Remain a Village, 1980-2016 Throughout much of the 1980s, snow levels were above average, there were regular summer monsoons, and the village prospered. Tourists began arriving to hike the switchbacks. Interest in the area seemed to be mostly focused on a tiny segment of history, from 1922 to 1932, when the switchbacks and Route 66 ran through La Bajada to Santa Fe and the climb to La Bajada mesa, Cieneguilla and Santa Fe. The village once again attracted families connected to La Bajada from Peña Blanca and La Ciénega. In 2004, La Bajada village was identified as a “High-Potential Historic Site” by the National Park Service and the BLM State Office in the Final Impact Statement for El Camino Real Historic Trail Comprehensive Management Plan. In 2005, National Old Trails Road Historic District at La Bajada and Route 66 were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes six miles of roadway, associated structures, the 1926 timber bridge across the Río Santa Fe and the Walden Tourist Camp. The village’s leaders have engaged in diplomacy with their neighbors, Cochiti Pueblo to the north and west, Kiwa Pueblo (Santo Domingo) to the south, BLM and USDA Forest Service to the northeast. From the time of the approval of La Majada Land Grant in 1908 at 54,404 acres, to today’s acreage of 70 acres, it’s a wonder that La Bajada Village survives. The future of the village will depend upon the flow of water in the Santa Fe River and the relationships of those that live alongside. As eloquently written in a letter to the Santa Fe River Traditional Communities Collaborative (SFRTCC) meeting in October 2015, Darrin Muenzberg Tinjero de Barreras y Lucero, great-grandson of Florinda Lucero Barreras, eighth-generation resident of La Bajada Village, commissioner/parciente of the community acequia and chairman of La Bajada Traditional Village Committee said, “We need cooperative and consistent management of the Santa Fe River, as it runs through the jurisdictions of multiple agencies and communities. We need assessment of cultural and historical impact to be conducted hand-in-hand with environmental impact.The key here is clearly recognizing that Traditional Communities of the Santa Fe River have managed to sustain it symbiotically by stewardship over four centuries, until myopic political agendas began manifesting themselves as ostensibly harmless ‘tree planting’ and ‘river restoration’ projects in the 1990s.” He went on to urge elected officials to continue attendance and participation in the SFRTCC meetings and encouraged a plan for the uninterrupted flow of the Santa Fe River through the village of La Bajada. (Letter from Capitán Darrin N. Muenzberg to the SFRTCC meeting from his ship on the Arabian Sea, U.S. Merchant Marine, Oct. 9, 2015) ■
HISTORIAN HILARIO E. ROMERO Author of La Bajada Village History Series Hilario E. Romero is a New Mexican mestizo (Spanish/ Basque/Jicarilla Apache/Ute). He is a former New Mexico state historian and archivist. From 1973 to 2015, he was a professor of history, Spanish and education at Northern New Mexico College, and he directed NNMC’s New Mexico Educational Opportunity Center from 1983 to 2013. Prior to and during his tenure at NNMC, Romero also taught at the University of Colorado-Denver, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of New Mexico and New Mexico Highlands University. His Ph.D. studies as a National Bilingual Fellow were at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Educational Policy and Multilingual/Cultural Curriculum & Instruction, and in International Education. Romero became an activist during the Civil Rights movement. Soon thereafter, be was involved in the Chicano and the American Indian movements. He is also an accomplished musician and performed as part of the norteño group, Los Folkloristas de Nuevo Mejico, with Cipriano Vigil (1983–2013). On May 17, 2017, at an awards ceremony at the San Miguel Mission, Romero received the Community Service Award from the Old Santa Fe Association, founded in 1926 to promote preservation of Santa Fe’s history and historic buildings and homes.
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citizens have certain rights; that every right has a responsibility, and that no one has the right to treat the land badly and with malice.
A congreso is an annual meeting where information is shared and everyone is welcome at no cost. For this congreso there was a combined benefit of science from agencies and nonprofits. Participants included the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, acequia parciantes (water rights holders), conservation organizations, students and many others.
Debuys highlighted his talk with photography showing changes in lands that have occurred from 1800s to the present. This gave the participants a perspective on how long it takes to damage landscapes in contrast to how long it takes for landscapes to recover. One set of photos from the Pecos high country indicated various stages of forest cover and clearly showed the impact of fire and drought above the tree line. Photos from 1925 showed poor range conditions and many fewer trees. Debuys asked, “When did the overgrazing happen? Some say that it was in the late 1800s, because regulations began to be implemented in the early 1900s. The health of the land improved, but then with World War II there was more unrestricted grazing to produce food for the war effort, and all stocking limits were lifted.”
he second Río Chama Watershed Congreso was held in March at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiú, New Mexico. The congreso was convened to discuss issues related to watershed governance and to explore opportunities for broad collaboration to improve conditions in the watershed.
Human history is a story of the coevolution of tools and social practices to support ever more forms of cooperation. Steve Harris, project leader for the Río Chama Watershed Project, organized the gathering with help from Rosemary Romero, who acted as a facilitator for both congresos. A Bureau of Reclamation Water Smart grant was instrumental in making the congreso possible. Addressing landscape issues so there will be fewer mudslides, lessening the danger from oil and gas development, and assuring that there is enough forage for wildlife were among the congreso’s interrelated goals. The organizers provided opportunities for the participants to gain a better understanding of the resources available to address ongoing issues and challenges; to network with project planners, practitioners and neighbors; to build trust, knowledge, connections and linkages, and to inspire new on-the-ground partnerships. Two keynote addresses were given by well-known, respected writers. Bill deBuys, author of A Great Aridness; First Impressions; River of Traps; and Salt Dreams, noted that
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The other keynote was by Lucy Moore, a mediator and facilitator, who read from her recent book, Common Ground on Hostile Turf, which focuses on lessons learned from her career. Moore’s insightful and compelling stories about resolving seemingly intractable conflicts by working together could provide inspiration to anyone caught in such disputes. The day was punctuated with several panels coming from different perspectives, including landowners, conservationists, parciantes, forest planners and agencies with direct responsibility for managing r i v e r f l o w s o r w a t e r q u a l i t y. A l l highlighted the need for responsible stewardship through partnership guided by long-range vision. Lucia Sánchez, the Interstate Stream Commission’s state and regional water planner, highlighted her work as chair of the Río Chama Regional Water Plan and former Río Arriba County planning manager. Sánchez said that the key areas of focus for the Río Chama Regional Water Plan include drought, acequia infrastructure and promotion of local agriculture, watershed restoration, mutual domestic water and sanitation district infrastructure, data monitoring
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L–R: Davíd Manzanares of the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts speaks with Abe Franklin of the New Mexico Environment Department. Behind them is Daniel Manzanares, a rancher. and management.
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Sánchez said that strategies implemented in 2006 to meet future water demand are still relevant. She identified other current issues, including keeping water rights within the region, enhancing streamflow for the growing season, providing reliable community water supplies, protecting water quality, the conservation and reuse of water resources, and the protection and
The next congreso will be held in Abiquiú in 2018. For more information, contact Sánchez at 505.476.5397 or Lucia. Sanchez@state.nm.us ■ Rosemary Romero has co-written Watershed Plans for New Mexico. She is a former city councilor and planning commissioner for the City of Santa Fe.
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NATIVE MEDICINES FOR NEW MEXICO POLLINATORS MELANIE M ARGARITA K IRBY
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ol, agua, tierra. The combination of sunlight, water and earth gives us sustenance by nurturing the growth of plants. P lants exchange pollen—their life-giving force—and in doing so, give birth to seeds. These seeds carry on the stories of the plants, from one generation to the next. And while seeds are the stories, who are the stor ytellers sharing the pollen? Those who tend to the elements are considered caretakers of creation. They are the storytellers sharing the seed stories. But before they are able to share these stories with their comadres and compadres and their communities, the seeds themselves had midwives. The midwives helped birth these seeds by transferring pollen from flower to flower.
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Pollen is also part of the midwives, tradition. Pollinators rely on the exchange of pollen and its life-giving properties to sustain their health. They rely on clean water resources and healthy plants for nectar. They collect resin from trees and shrubs to
seal their home with propolis. They share their foraged medicines—transforming them into liquid starlight—honey, among other raw hive products. Their cultural traditions are passed down from one generation to the next, just like us Nuevo Mexicanos. Their stories have been of adaptation and resilience. But sadly, these days, pollinators are struggling. Between fluctuating weather, increased importation of unhealthy bee stock, pest and disease issues, and toxic pesticide, herbicide and fungicide applications, pollinators are faced with daily challenges that can affect their ability to endure. If their habitat is compromised, then their forage and diet will be insufficient. And this statement can be true for us humanos, too. If our habitat is compromised, and our fields and waterways contaminated, our delicious cuisine and communities will be unhealthy. There is a profound interconnectedness between all species on this planet. Those of us who work with the land as caretakers of creation live it daily. We recognize that water is life and that along with it, the sun, the sky, the earth, the pollen, seeds, and the bees—all help to carry on our stories. Our pollinators need nurturing, too. Their stories of resilience are crumbling. They need caretakers of creation who can work with them, for them, and promote their local stories. Farm-led medicinal herb research is currently being conducted through a New Mexico Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop block grant awarded to New Mexico S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y ’s Alcalde S ustainable Agriculture S cience
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Native plant recycler Todd Bates harvests oregano in Embudo, New Mexico.
Center. Robert Heyduck, Horticulture research associate for the center, along with Todd Bates of New Mexico Native Plant Recyclers in Embudo, and I, Melanie Margarita Kirby of Zia Queenbees Farm & Field Institute in Truchas, New Mexico, are collaborating to investigate the benefits of Oregano de la Sierra—a native New Mexico medicinal herb that supports pollinator and human health and may have potential as a value-added product for area farmers. Oregano de la Sierra (monarda fistulosa var. menthafolia) is a high-mountain bee balm that grows between 6,000 and 8,000 feet. Todd Bates has been growing this medicinal herb for several years. He has been selecting strains and harvesting their big, purple flowers and leaves for drying. He has noticed that pollinators of all sorts are very attracted to this plant. He wonders
if bees and butterflies are medicating themselves with nectars and oils. This curious question has inspired the collaborative effort, which encouraged Robert Heyduck to enlist and assist scientists from various parts of the country, including Dr. Don Hyder, chemistry professor at S an Juan College in Farmington, and Dr. Jay Evans, director of the USDA’s Beltsville, Md., Bee Lab. Their joint investigation will look at the medicinal benefits this native plant shares with both the bees and people. A free public field day will take place in Alcalde and Embudo on June 16 from 9 am to noon, with presentations on the chemistry of medicinal nectars, pollinator health and identification of native pollinators. For more information, visit www.herb4bees.com. ■ Melanie Margarita Kirb, is a native New Mexican from Tortugas Pueblo, is founder of Zia Queenbees Farm & Field Institute. She has been keeping bees professionally for 20 years. Her farm specializes in local honeybee breeding, pollination services and hive medicines. www. ziaqueenbees.com/zia
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OP-ED: WAR ON FORESTS A Response to “New Mexicans Need Fire-Adapted Communities” (March 2017 GFT)
Trees are not “sticks” or “dog hair” or “fuels,” as government forest managers are now calling them. They are living beings and they are half water. Water is not a fire hazard, as everyone knows who has ever put green, fresh-cut wood in a fireplace. But if you take a cool, dark, moist, calm, fire-resistant forest, remove 90 percent of the trees, open up the canopy, let the sun and the wind in, and clear out all the underbrush, you get a hot, dry, windy skeleton of a forest that is a hazard to homes and communities. You get a world with fewer trees, fewer birds, fewer wild animals and less oxygen in the air. Forests are under massive assault, worldwide, by an insatiable hunger for
wood products, by oil, gas, geothermal, real estate and other interests salivating over the vast resources represented by public lands, by government agencies that do their bidding and by environmental groups that, in their thirst for funding, have forgotten their missions, abandoned common sense and lost their respect for nature’s wisdom. “Light-burning,” wrote Aldo Leopold in 1920, “means the deliberate firing of forests at frequent intervals in order to burn up and prevent the accumulation of litter and thus prevent the occurrence of serious conflagrations.” This propaganda, Leopold told us, had no basis in reality and was disseminated by timber and mining interests in order to reap short-term profits from public lands at the expense of longterm productivity. The Forest Service was created, in part, in order to put an end to this destructive practice, which had resulted in the shrinking of our forests and the replacement of vast portions by brush and grass. The policy of fire suppression criticized by Mr. Krasilovsky was put in place as a necessary reaction to the devastating fires of 1910 that were a culmination of decades of slashing and burning by an out-of-control timber industry. Leopold was instrumental in putting into place national policies of good stewardship. He reminded us of the obvious: Fire, however light, destroys the seedlings needed to replenish the old stand; destroys humus in the soil necessary for tree growth; inflicts scars on trees, which increases resin and intensifies future fires, and leaves them prone to disease and insects. He
Months after the 2011 Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, NM
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e, the members of the forest conservation organization Once A Forest, are horrified that Green Fire Times printed a pro-development, anti-environmental, non-historical piece of propaganda by Eytan Krasilovsky as the cover story for its March 2017 issue. The idea that the plants and animals that compose our forests suffer from a deficiency of fire is an outrageous lie, propagated by the U.S. Forest Service in the service of commercial interests that are rapidly destroying our planet. The idea that there are too many trees in the forest, and that we should remove 90 percent of them to protect “fire-adapted communities,” is a lie that is the single greatest threat to biodiversity and the single biggest contributor to climate change, both in the United States and in other countries. The idea that dense forests are a fire hazard prone to disease and insects is the exact opposite of the truth.
Birds searched for insects behind the bark of a dead tree. reminded us that forests are not just trees, they are communities, and that every fire, no matter how light, destroys all eggs and helpless young, and it burns the forest floor, destroying the forage that furnishes the winter feed for animals. Even fish in streams, wrote Leopold, are killed by alkaline ashes washed into the water. It is essential, he said, to vigorously enforce a policy of “absolutely preventing forest fires insofar as humanly possible.” Leopold died in 1948. Common sense prevailed for 20 more years. But in 1968 the National Park Service resumed lightburning under a new name: “prescribed fire.” A decade later the Forest Service followed suit. Today, the Forest Service deliberately burns whole landscapes at once, on a scale Leopold could never have imagined. Six hundred thousand acres of northern New
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Mexico are slated to be deliberately burned, every 10 years, starting now. In Arizona four entire National Forests, encompassing two million acres, are slated to be deliberately burned, every 10 years, starting last year. Nothing will survive. Forest ecology has nothing to do with the mindless counting of trees. Forty trees that are three feet in diameter contain the same amount of carbon as 400 trees one foot in diameter, and as 4,000 trees four inches in diameter. That dense second-growth needs to be there. It is the lungs of our planet. It is habitat for birds and wildlife. It is beauty and magic, and it is in dire need of protection. ■ —Jan Boyer, Arthur Firstenberg, Susan Gunst, Phoebe Hummel, Emmy Koponin and Cate Moses. For more information visit www.OnceAForest.org
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THE FOREST STEWARD GUILD’S RESPONSE New Mexico’s ecosystems have evolved and have been shaped by fire. EYTAN K RASILOVSKY
With this mission and these principles, the Guild’s Southwest Program implements long-standing forest resilience, fireadapted communities and forest stewards youth corps programs. These principles are the roots of all of our members’ forest stewardship ethic, which aligns our organization with land ethic of Aldo Leopold and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. As part of a Guild meeting, I was able to visit the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the famous “shack” where much of his groundbreaking writing took place. I learned from Leopold’s grandchildren how they care for the land guided by their grandfather’s land ethic. Their approach and that of the foundation is rooted in the famous quote, “Game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it— axe, plow, cow, fire and gun... 2” For natural resource managers today, the land ethic means that intact, functioning ecosystems are needed to support varied habitats. In the Southwest, the tools to accomplish this are much the same as when Leopold served on the Carson National Forest in Tres Piedras: the axe and fire. In the March 2017 issue of Green Fire Times, I called for fire-adapted communities and resilient landscapes and described how New Mexico’s ecosystems have evolved and have been shaped by fire, and that as a result, we need to learn to live with and adapt to the presence of wildfire. This is aligned with the Aldo Leopold Foundation’s current land care advice for woodland owners.3 The science of tree rings provides another line of evidence to further support the use
of these tools. Forests provide exceptionally detailed histories through their tree rings. Researchers have collected thousands of tree ring records that help us understand Southwestern forests. The University of Arizona is a world leader in tree-ring research, or dendrochronology. Their website4 provides a great introduction to this fascinating science. Tree rings keep an objective record of droughts, climate changes, insect outbreaks and fires. These events are recorded in the tree rings as differences in ring width or visible fire scars. If a fire kills all the trees in an area, tree rings can tell researchers when the new generation started to grow (and hence the date and size of the severe fire). Tree rings tell us that before large-scale European settlement our ponderosa pine trees survived many fires, which passed through forests as often as every four years. With all the lightning the Southwest receives each year this is hardly surprising. These fires burned quickly through the forest with small flames, leaving behind a relatively small number of large trees with grassy meadows in between.5 The trees that survived had less competition for water, nutrients and light, so they were healthier, able to withstand drought and insect outbreaks. Frequent fires also maintained good living conditions for many animals, especially ones that prefer open forests such as northern goshawks, turkey, elk and kestrels.6
pine forests were adapted to, they became less healthy. Wildlife biologists and rare plant experts have documented how the lack of fire negatively impacted animals and plants. Moreover, the dense forests that our suppression of fire has created are at high risk of a very different, very destructive kind of wildfire. Wildfires like the 2011 Las Conchas fire that killed every tree across thousands of acres are absent from the tree-ring records or the early General Land Office surveys that crossed New Mexico around 1880. Unfortunately, unless we return fire to its natural role in forests, these large, high-severity fires are predicted to become more common. My March 2017 call for fire-adapted communities and resilient landscapes in these pages was rooted in the sciences of fire ecology and dendrochronology and aligned with Leopold’s land ethic and the Forest Stewards Guild mission and principles. ■
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h e Fo re s t S t e w a rd s G u i l d prides itself on its mission and principles1 which put the needs of the forest first, and state that the “wellbeing of human society is dependent on responsible forest management that places the highest priority on the maintenance and enhancement of the entire forest ecosystem.”
Surveying the aftermath of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire near Los Alamos, NM Eytan Krasilovsky is the southwest director of the Forest Stewards Guild.
The Santa Fe watershed tree-ring records collected by Dr. Ellis Margolis and his team record a fire every four years on average.7 Tree-ring records from the Santa Fe watershed also show a fire in 1685 that burned across a wide area. While this fire scarred many trees and probably killed many small trees, the tree rings show medium and larger trees survived, grew faster and were healthier after the fire. Tree rings also show how successful fire suppression was in the 20th century. Few if any fire scars were recorded during the last 100 years. Without the fire ponderosa
1 Read more about Guild principles here: www.forestguild.org/mission-principles. 2 Leopold, Aldo. 1933. Game Management. University of Wisconsin Press. 3 Aldo Leopold Foundation Land Care Program. www.aldoleopold.org/teach-learn/classes-workshops/land-care/. 4 University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research. http://ltrr.arizona.edu/about/treerings. 5 Friederici, P., ed. (2003). Ecological restoration of southwestern Ponderosa pine forests. Washington, D.C., Island Press. 6 Graham, R. T., McCaffrey, S., and Jain, T. B. (2004). “Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildlife behavior and severity.” General Technical Report, RMRS-GTR-120. 7 A 700-year history of fire and streamflow: Santa Fe watershed, New Mexico. http://swfireconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Margolis_Tree-Rings.pdf
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FIRES OF CHANGE AND LANDSCAPES OF LIFE AND DEATH Two exhibitions presented by 516 ARTS deepen relationships to life, death and the fragile ecosystems we inhabit.
Fires of Change, in the downstairs gallery, is a traveling exhibition launched by the Flagstaff Arts Council and curated by Shawn Skabelund. It features sculpture, photography, video, mixed media and installation by 10 artists from Arizona and across the country. In late 2014, as a precursor to the exhibition, the artists attended Fire Science Bootcamp with a team of nationally regarded fire scientists and forest managers. During the weeklong, educationally immersive trip through the forests of northern Arizona, the artists explored the impact of wildfire in the region. The resulting works comprise this exhibition. Landscapes of Life & Death, in the
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This month presents an important opportunity to look at and deepen our relationships to life, loss, death and the fragile ecosystems we inhabit. From May 27 to July 22, 516 ARTS hosts two concurrent exhibitions: Fires of Change, exploring the social and ecological issues behind the rise of catastrophic wildfires in the western United States through collaboration between scientists and contemporary artists, and Landscapes of Life & Death, examining life, loss, death and the fragile ecosystems we inhabit. Both exhibitions explore our intimate connections to nature through contemporary art, begging us to investigate our individual relationship and responsibilities to the natural world.
These exhibitions come to Albuquerque at a critical time to explore these conversations around the future of our environment and, ultimately, our own self-preservation. It is becoming increasingly clear: We need a whole sea of change. Exhibitions like these are an opportunity to shape new ways of thinking and inspire action. The exhibitions are accompanied by public programs:
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Thursday, June 22, 6:30 pm TALK: Fire & Water Join New Mexico scientists for a discussion about fire management in the mountains of northern New Mexico and how it is connected to the Río Grande and drinking water in Albuquerque. Presenters include Collin Haffey and Dr. Ellis Margolis of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Zander Evans of the Forest Stewards Guild, and Sarah Hurteau of The Nature Conservancy. Thursday, June 29, 9:30-11 am FAMILY WORKSHOP: Matchstick Forest Kids and adults are invited to join ecologist Krista Bonfantine, watershed ecologist with Arid Land Innovation, as she demonstrates strategies for managing local forests for fire. Participants will design and test their own matchstick forests and tour the Fires of Change exhibition to see how artists have responded to issues of climate change and forest fires in the Southwest. Space is limited. Register: nichole@516arts.org ■ 516 ARTS is an independent, nonprof it contemporary arts organization, operating a museum-style gallery in the center of Downtown Albuquerque. All events are f ree and open to the public. An online guide to the programs is available at www.516arts.org
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upstairs gallery, is a group exhibition guest curated by Mary Anne Redding. This exhibition poses a unique opportunity to look at loss, extinction, death and renewal, spanning emotional landscapes of human death as well as environmental landscapes of destruction. Contemporar y photographic artists address the nuances of loss and grief for themselves and the planet.
Aftermath of the 2011 Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, NM
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enerally, the idea of death makes people slightly, if not wholly, uncomfortable,” writes curator Mary Anne Redding, “especially when it’s the intimate idea of human death… or the mass destruction of life and landscape after a devastating fire. Yet many artists explore the shape of loss as a meditation on the landscape of death, whether contemplating their own or through a more universal meditation on loss and grief.”
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1 Michael Marmot et al., “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health,” The Lancet 372, no. 9650 (Nov. 8, 2008):1661–1669. 2 Collins, P.H. & Bilge, S. Intersectionality. Polty Press, Cambrige, UK; 2016. 3 Hankivisky O. Introduction to the Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework. Paper presented at: International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2012.
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Perhaps the most important theme of the research is that social determinants matter. The health and economic well-being of women and girls in New Mexico is shaped by social determinants, or in other words, “where and how women and girls live, work, learn, pray and play.”1 Participants in the project emphasized the critical role and significant impact that historical trauma and colonization, patriarchy and structural racism, have on their well-being.
immigration status, nativity, sexual identity and the environment have enormous inextricable effects on the health outcomes and quality of life for women, girls and communities in New Mexico. Indeed, the feedback and stories from communities found throughout the reports illustrate this relationship. The objective of this research is to provide a knowledge base of community expertise and experience that can be used to advance meaningful change in the lives of women and girls across the state.
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Heart of Gender Justice research team. L–R: Lisa Cacari Stone, Antoinette Villamil, Sarah Ghiorse, Nancy López, Renee Villarreal, Claudia Díaz Fuentes and Fatima van Hattum
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SODA TAX AND HEALTH: THE WORK CONTINUES
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for residents in the city and county to get food, grow food and learn about food. As part of this plan, the council suggested various interventions that show promise of positively changing eating behaviors and averting the looming health problems that will trap Santa Fe’s children and families in unhealthy and unproductive lives.
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ust because the voters defeated Santa Fe’s proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on May 2 doesn’t mean that the city’s dietary health problems have gone away. While the price of soda will remain the same, the ballot initiative did heighten awareness of problems associated with unhealthy eating. Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in particular and unhealthy foods in general is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic in the United States. According to Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, one in three children in the U.S. is overweight or obese, with the trend disproportionately affecting Hispanic and Native American students. The USDA reports that sugary beverages are the thirdhighest source of calories for Americans under the age of 18. The ballot issue also helped provide a much greater understanding of the need to further invest in early childhood education. During the battle over the state budget, funding for all levels of education has been in jeopardy, at a time when New Mexico’s education system continues to rank 49th in the nation.
In a letter submitted by the Santa Fe Food Policy Council to Mayor Gonzales, the council encouraged aggressive and thoughtful measures to focus on the health of our community while embracing innovation in schools to elevate creative learning environments. The council, an appointed body of individuals representing food, agriculture and education, released the Santa Fe Food Plan, “Planning for Santa Fe’s Food Future: Querencia, a story of food, farming and friends,” in October 2014. The plan proposed goals to make it easier
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Changing diets requires multiple interventions that can provide ongoing information, change environments to make the healthy food choice the easy choice, and use public institutions such as our schools to promote healthy eating and active living. Santa Fe already has programs such as Cooking with Kids and farm-to-school activities offered in various schools that link math, science and reading to food production and preparation. These educational experiences help students of all ages—pre-K through high school—develop an awareness of food options and healthy lifestyle. The evidence demonstrates that healthier eating behavior does occur over time. Sue Perry, wellness director for the City of Santa Fe and co-chair of the council says, “This is a perfect opportunity to expand initiatives we have in place such as our partnership with the MoGro (Mobile Grocery) fresh food program, which provides an opportunity for city employees to easily purchase organic fruit and vegetables at a reasonable price.”
CITY STAFF WELCOME INNOVATIVE PURCHASING PROGRAM Every Wednesday, City Hall staff wait in anticipation for the MoGro truck to deliver boxes of organic fresh fruit and vegetables that they purchased through MoGro’s website. Sue Perry, City of Santa Fe wellness coordinator, supported the city’s partnership with the program. She saw it as a way to heighten people’s awareness of healthy food choices. In addition, she engages staff with cooking contests and recipes that they can take home to share with family and friends. Because of its popularity, the program is expanding to the city’s Market Station office in the railyard. MoGro, an initiative of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, is a nonprofit mobile grocery working to support sustainable local food systems and eliminate barriers to affordable healthy food. The initiative began its work in rural and tribal lands, partnering with Pueblo communities, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, Skarsgard Farms and La Montañita Co-op to address healthy food access in low-income and underserved regions of New Mexico. MoGro’s first partnership in Santa Fe was with La Familia Clinic. The program there offers clients and their families a weekly, subsidized box of produce, as well as a double value opportunity for families purchasing with food stamps. MoGro continues to expand. Partnering with the City of Santa Fe is a new way to pilot innovative programs in an urban area. Rebecca Baran-Rees, MoGro’s director, wants to get more local produce into the program. The Santa Fe Food Policy Council is working closely with MoGro and the city to explore additional ways to expand the program for individuals and families throughout the community.
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Mark Winne, co-chair of the council said, “Over the past several years, the Food Plan has been a guide for the community to take steps towards increasing access to healthy and affordable foods. One such program is “Double Up Bucks” at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, which links families and individuals on the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to fresh fruit and vegetables being sold by local farmers. I see programs like these as a ‘win-win.’” The Santa Fe Food Policy Council looks forward to working with Mayor Gonazales, the City Council and the county to develop comprehensive strategies focused on healthy eating and active living. The issues raised by the soda tax will not go away because the voters said “no.” Now is the time to build on that debate and create a healthier Santa Fe. Pam Roy is coordinator of the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and executive director of Farm to Table. 505.660.8403, pam@ farmtotablenm.org, www.santafefoodpolicy.org
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NEWSBITEs NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS MAY LOSE PROTECTIONS National monument designations make lands off-limits to commercial development. President Trump has described national monuments created since 1996 that cover more than 100,000 acres as “a massive federal land grab” that “should never have happened.” The president has proposed reducing or redesignating 27 monuments in 11 states. Under an executive order, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was instructed to produce a final report in 120 days. Conservationists see Zinke’s review as the first step in turning over monuments to become federal land that can be transferred to state trust lands required to generate income for the state, often mining and gas and oil drilling. Last month Zinke toured Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. He met with the Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition for an hour. Tribal leaders said there wasn’t enough time to make their points and that Zinke mostly listened to his entourage of anti-monument politicians. Tribal councils representing Río Grande Valley Pueblos, as well as Zuni, Mescalero Apache and Navajo, have demonstrated broad agreement that the Río Grande del Norte National Monument and Organ Mountain-Desert Peaks Monument designations must be maintained. The RGDN stretches from Taos Pueblo lands to beyond the Colorado line. The OM-DP is 300 miles south toward Las Cruces. New Mexico’s Republican congressional representative Steve Pearce has proposed reducing that 490,000-acre monument to 54,800 acres. Both monuments have seen significant economic impact since becoming national monuments because of the increasing number of visitors.
NEW MEXICO AMONG FOUR STATES TO SUE OVER COAL LEASE DECISION President Trump’s executive order to amend or withdraw the coal-leasing moratoria on federal lands has sparked a lawsuit. Attorneys for California, New Mexico, New York and Washington say that the program was reversed without due consideration for the environment and fair value for taxpayers.The suit claims that the reversal was made “with no justification other than an objection to the time and cost of complying with the law.” “Climate change has to be considered when we are talking about compensating states and New Mexico citizens for their resources,” said Cholla Khoury, New Mexico Attorney Gen. Hector Balderas’ director of consumer and environmental protection. The Obama administration blocked the sale of new leases in 2016 in order to conduct an environmental study and a review of the royalties that mining companies pay the government for coal that’s extracted. Interior officials said in January that those royalty rates could be raised to help offset the effects of climate change from burning coal. Eleven percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 reportedly came from the production and combustion of coal on federal lands. The administration’s decision to review those designations in New Mexico has resulted in an opposition coalition of tribal leaders, sportsmen, ranchers, business owners and conservationists. They allege that the political drive threatening these lands is orchestrated in part by the American Lands Council, a group backed by the fossil-fuel industry-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has proposed the transfer of all federal lands in the West back to willing states.
MULTINATIONAL ENERGY FIRMS EXPAND THEIR HOLDINGS IN NEW MEXICO Despite environmental protests, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is proceeding with oil and gas lease sales in southeastern New Mexico. The resulting $70 million in revenue is expected to improve the state’s budget crisis. Major multinational energy companies have spent more than $13 billion in recent months on oil and gas hot spots in the state. Acreage has been going for twice what companies paid in September 2016, and New Mexico has been leading the nation in new drilling rigs. Exxon-Mobil Corp. is paying $5.6 billion in company stock plus about $1 billion more in cash to the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, to double its holdings on 275,000 acres in the Permian Basin, which extends from Texas into southeast New Mexico,
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and includes the Delaware Basin in Lea and Eddy counties, where the company gains access to an estimated 3.4 billion barrels of oil. It will likely take many years to fully explore and develop the vast deposits there. Last September, Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. acquired Yates Petroleum Corp. for $2.5 billion for extensive holdings in Lea and Eddy counties, and in November, Concho Resources paid $430 million for about 24,000 acres in the area. In April, ConocoPhillips announced plans to sell all of its San Juan Basin assets in northwestern New Mexico for $3 billion to Hilcorp San Juan LP.
ALBUQUERQUE’S GREEN INITIATIVES With its focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation and public transportation, Albuquerque has become one of the nation’s sustainability leaders. Since 2010, the city’s carbon emissions have been reduced by more than 11,703 metric tons, the equivalent of taking more than 2,464 cars off the road or planting 300,086 trees. This is the result of $16.8 million invested in 100 energy-efficiency projects. The city’s website touts the projects’ environmental impacts as well as the economic savings, noting a total avoided energy cost of more than $4 million. American City Business Journals, in its annual nationwide ranking, put Albuquerque at number 25 for green building, tying with Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albuquerque had 737,771 square-feet with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The city has 16 LEED-certified projects. Eleven are gold-certified and two are silver-certified. LEED certification measures energy-efficiency and other environmentally conscious building practices. A prime example of this is Central New Mexico College’s Smith Brasher Hall construction of new computer labs, a renovated auditorium, an enlarged business resource center and staff spaces, which will be LEED-certified. Renovations to CNM’s School of Business & Information Technology building, to be completed this month by Bradbury Stamm, cost $24 million, funded by a voter-approved bond. The building’s wells have high-efficiency geothermal fields that reduce energy. Twenty-two thousand tons of recycled material were salvaged and used for the building. Another focus for Albuquerque is its public-private recycling program and its Integrated Waste Management Plan, which aims to increase the city’s diversion rate to 40 percent. The city partners with Friedman Recycling to allow residents to recycle a variety of materials through cart-based curbside recycling. In FY 2016, residents recycled 26,166 tons.
SFCC AWARDED $200,000 EPA JOB TRAINING GRANT Santa Fe Community College is one of 14 organizations selected by the Environmental Protection Agency to receive funding for job-training programs for local unemployed residents. The programs will prepare people for green jobs that reduce environmental contamination and provide more sustainable futures for communities affected by solid- and hazardous-waste contamination. SFCC has long led the way in environmental job training programs for northern New Mexico students. “We continue to promote sustainable and environmental technologies as a driver of economic growth and new jobs,” said SFCC President Randy Grissom. The college’s grant of $200,000 will help train 69 students and place at least 51 graduates in environmental jobs. The training program also includes instruction in health and safety, environmental site assessments and sampling, mold remediation and asbestos awareness, allowing graduates to earn 12 state or federal certifications. SFCC plans to focus recruitment on rural Native Americans, veterans and underserved youth. The college has partnered with Coordinated Vision LLC, Northern New Mexico College, New Mexico Branch of the Association of General Contractors, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe YouthWorks, SER Jobs for Progress, New Mexico Workforce Connection, Northern Area Local Workforce Development Board, and Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council Office of Environmental and Technical Assistance. For information on SFCC’s job training programs, call 505.800.8765 or email janet.kerley@sfcc.edu
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JUNE 7, 8:30 AM–4 PM NM RECYCLING COALITION ABQ MUSEUM, VENTANA SALON Annual meeting and professional recycling training. 6 CEU credits towards NMED and National Sustainable Resource Management Recertification. $100/$175. 505.603.0558, www.recycyclenewmexico.com JUNE 7, 5:30 PM FIRST FORUM LECTURE NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 1701 4TH ST. SW “Advancing Healthy Politics in New Mexico.” Join New Mexico First for an evening on strengthening and rewarding a healthy democracy in the Land of Enchantment. Featured speakers: retired U.S. Senators Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, co-authors of Crisis Point: Why We Must – and How We Can – Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America. Bipartisanship awards will be presented. Tickets: $100. www.nmfirst.org JUNE 8, 7:30–10 AM SMALL BUSINESS HEALTHCARE SUMMIT ABQ CONVENTION CENTER 401 2ND ST. NW Workshops will help NM executives prepare for what’s ahead. Panel of expert and roundtable sessions on employee healthcare costs, options and more. $45 includes breakfast and expo. Presented by ABQ Business First. www.bizjournals.com/ albuquerque/event/160162/2017/ JUNE 8, 5:30–7 PM DISCUSSION ON THE ENVIRONMENT SIMMS SPACE, 400 GOLD AVE. SW, 7TH FL. Former EPA regional administrator Ron Curry, science writer Cally Carswell and Pueblo of Acoma member Theresa Pascual. Moderated by writer Laura Paskus. $20 suggested donation. Presented by NM Political Report. JUNE 11, 9–11 AM EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANT HIKE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER 6500 COORS BLVD. NE Led by Dara Saville (https:// albuquerqueherbalism.com). Free. Preregistration required. 505.452.5222, www. cabq.gov/openspace JUNE 11, 9–11 AM SEASONS OF GROWTH GARDENING CLASS INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER 2401 12TH NW Resilience Garden hands-on session on helping vegetables, trees and shrubs thrive. $5 suggested donation. 11 am: volunteer work. 505.843.7270, Reservations: bsandoval@ indianpueblo.org JUNE 16, 6–9 PM SUMMER SOLSTICE BLUES FEST INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER 2401 12TH NW Memphis P. Tails, Felix y Los Gatos, Levi Platero. Hosted by Ira Wilson of Red Earth. $20/kids 4 & under free. 505.843.7270, ipcc. ticketleap.com/summer-solstice-blues-fest/ JUNE 18, 9 AM–2 PM BEE CITY POLLINATION CELEBRATION OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER, 6500 COORS BLVD. NE Displays, workshops, live music, storytelling, presentations, installations, honey tasting,
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ABQ 2030 DISTRICT A voluntary collaboration of commercial property tenants, building managers, property owners and developers; real estate, energy, and building sector professionals, lenders, utility companies and public stakeholders such as government agencies, nonprofits, community groups and grassroots organizers. Property partners share anonymous utility data and best practices. Professional partners provide expertise and services. Public partners support the initiative as it overlaps with their own missions. Info: albuquerque@2030districts.org
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JUNE 4–6 NEXT GENERATION WATER SUMMIT/GREEN EXPO SF CONVENTION CENTER Learn about new tools and models for building to become radically more water-efficient. An event for policymakers, building designers, builders/developers, water conservation professionals, water system designers, landscape designers, land use planners, etc. Educational sessions. Keynote speakers: Ed Mazria, Mary Ann Dickinson. Registration: $299/$50 students. 6/4: Green Expo and Green Home Show. Hosted by the City of SF, SF Green Chamber, Green Builder Coalition, Santa Fe Area Homebuilders Association. www. NextGenerationWaterSummit.com JUNE 5–30 ART OF ACADEMICS THROUGH NATIVE CONNECTIONS GONZALES SCHOOL Free, full-day program for rising 1st through 8th grade Native American students. Students work on literacy, math and science skills while also celebrating Native cultures. 505.467.2644, ndavis@sfps.k12.nm.us JUNE 8, 7–9 PM FINDING JOY IN TROUBLED TIMES SF CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING 505 CAM. DE LOS MARQUEZ A talk geared towards anyone by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khentrul Lodro Thaye. $10 suggested donation. 505.660.1822, eric@ ericswanson.com JUNE 9–10, 5–8 PM 2017 EDIBLE ART TOUR SANTA FE ART GALLERIES Join ARTsmart and eat your way through SF galleries for two nights. 6/9: downtown; 6/10: Canyon Rd. Food provided by top restaurants, chefs and caterers. Benefits ARTsmart youth programs. Tickets: $35. Available at the Lensic or http://artfeast.org/artfeast-events/ summer-edible-art-tour/ JUNE 9–25 CURRENTS INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL LOCAL VENUES Annual festival featuring interactive installations, film screenings, live music and presentations. 6/9 opening from 6 pm to midnight at El Museo Cultural in the Railyard. Event schedule: currentsnewmedia.org/ festivals/currents-2017 JUNE 13, 5:30–7 PM BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: LOCAL VOICES FOR LOCAL IMPACT NM History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. Scott Kratz, director of the 11th St. Bridge Project, will review methods to engage community members in developing
equitable communities and how projects can create inclusive economic opportunities. $5. Reservations: 505.288.3531. Presented by Creative SF. www.creativesantafe.org JUNE 16, 9 AM CREATIVE MORNINGS PRESENTS RAY RIVERA NM HISTORY MUSEUM, 113 LINCOLN AVE. The SF New Mexican’s editor will discuss The Attack on Real News. Free. Register online: creativemornings.com/talks/ray-rivera JUNE 17, 9:30–11:30 AM TAKE A KID HIKING DAY DALE BALL TRAILS AT SIERRA DEL NORTE TRAILHEAD Self-guided hike for local trail lovers. SF Conservation Trust’s program manager Tim Rogers and SFCT staff and volunteers will provide water, snacks and maps for 4th and 5th graders working on their “Passport to Trails.” www.sfct.org JUNE 17, 6–9 PM GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS SF BOTANICAL GARDEN Summer solstice garden party fundraiser supports the SFBG’s education, community outreach, horticulture and conservation programs. Entertainment, gourmet food, auction. $175–$500. 505.471.9103, https:// santafebotanicalgarden.org/events/ summer-solstice-spectacular/ JUNE 18, JULY 4 SF CONCERT BAND Marches, show tunes and classical favorites. Free/donations accepted. 6/18, 2 pm at Federal Park; 7/4, 8 am on the Plaza Bandstand during the pancake breakfast. http://www.santafeconcertband.org JUNE 19–JULY 24 HANDS-ON HERITAGE EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY AND ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL Full-day program for rising 4th to 8th graders. The program’s themes are environment, history and cultures of Northern NM. $100– $200 for the five weeks with scholarships available. Contact Ed Gorman for El Camino at 505.690.8509 or Alma Rodríguez for Aspen at alrodriguez@sfps.k12.nm.us JUNE 21–24 RODEO DE SANTA FE SF RODEO GROUNDS Parade, competitions for barrel racing, riding and roping. 505.471.4300, rodeosantafe.org JUNE 24, 10 AM–12 PM COMMUNITY RIVER CLEANUP ALTO PARK (MEET BEHIND TENNIS COURTS) Bring gloves, water shoes, water bottles. www.santafewatershed.org JUNE 24, 4–8 PM FIRE & WATER FESTIVAL THE BRIDGE AT SF BREWING CO. Family-friendly event with music, activities for kids and adults, food trucks. Fundraiser to promote community education, advocacy and stewardship presented by the SF Watershed Association. $10 includes raffle ticket, kids 12 & under free. 505.820.1696, Raquel@santafewatershed.org, www. santafewatershed.org JUNE 24, 5–8 PM WATER IS LIFE FESTIVAL SF BOTANICAL GARDEN
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THROUGH FEB. 11, 2018 VOICES OF COUNTERCULTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST NM HISTORY MUSEUM, SF PLAZA Exhibit spans the 1960s and 70s exploring the influx of young people to NM and the collision of cultures. Archival footage, oral histories, photography, ephemera and artifacts. Curated by Jack Loeffler and Meredith Davidson. http://nmhistorymuseum.org/calendar.php?
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SF COUNTY Hard copies $70, CDs $2. Contact Melissa Holmes, 505.995.2717 or msholmes@ santafecounty.org. The SGMP is also available on the county website: www.santafecounty. org/growth_management/sgmp and can be reviewed at SF Public libraries and the County Administrative Building, 102 Grant Ave.
SUNDAYS, 10 AM-4 PM RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET FARMERS’ MARKET PAVILION 1607 PASEO DE PERALTA Local artists, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, live music. 505.983.4098, Francesca@santafefarmersmarket.com, artmarketsantafe.com SUNDAYS, 11 AM JOURNEY SANTA FE CONVERSATIONS COLLECTED WORKS BOOKS 202 GALISTEO ST. 6/4: Jennifer Ramo, exec. dir. of the antihunger group NM Appleseed, on the No Food Shaming Bill; 6/11: Red Mountain Press’s 10th anniversary celebration with editor/author Susan Gardner and writers Lisa Bickmore, Keith Emmons, Ann Filemyr, Robyn Hunt, Anne Valley Fox and others; 6/18: “Dealing with Doctors, Denial and Death.” Dr. Aroop Mangalik will provide information and resources for end-of-life decision making; 6/25: A conversation with Julie Ann Grimm, editor/publisher of the SF Reporter. Hosts: Alan Webber and Bill Dupuy. Free. www. journeysantafe.com MON.–SAT. POEH CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM 78 CITIES OF GOLD RD. PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE In T’owa Vi Sae’we: The People’s Pottery. Tewa Pottery from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Nah Poeh Meng: 1,600-sq.-ft. core installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history. Poehcenter.org TUES.–SAT. EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE 555 CAM. DE LA FAMILIA Rotating exhibits, community programs and performances designed to preserve Hispanic culture. Elmuseocultural.org WEDS.–SUN. SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 1050 OLD PECOS TRAIL Interactive exhibits and activities. 505.989.8359, Santafechildrensmuseum.org SAT., 7 AM-1 PM SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET 1607 PASEO DE PERALTA (& GUADALUPE) Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer fresh greenhouse tomatoes, greens, root veggies, cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked goods, body care products and much more. www.santafefarmersmarket.com SAT., 8 AM–4 PM RANDALL DAVEY AUDUBON CENTER 1800 UPPER CANYON RD. Striking landscapes and wildlife. Bird walks, hikes, tours of the Randall Davey home. 505.983.4609, http://nm.audubon.org/
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DAILY SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 CAM. LEJO, MUSEUM HILL Living museum on 14 acres. Ojos y Manos, Orchard Gardens, The Courtyard Gardens and the Arroyo Trails. Santafebotanicalgarden.org
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JUNE 1–SEPT. 29 EARTH BAG BUILDING WORKSHOP Learn to build a sustainable, affordable, off-grid solar home. 575.770.0085, earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com JUNE 4, 11, 25; JULY 2,9,16, 1–5 PM INDIGENOUS HERBALISM AND HEALING SERIES ARROYO SECO, NM Seven classes taught by Grandmother Flordemayo, Emigdio Ballon (Bolivia), Henrietta Gomez (Taos Pueblo), Howard Badhand (Lakota), curandera Tonita Gonzales, Tiffany Freeman (Cree). $350. Natives from local Pueblos may pay on a donation basis. 914.400.7558, www.nativerootshealing.com JUNE 17, 12–6 PM RALLY FOR THE RÍO/RÍO GRANDE DEL NORTE ORILLA VERDE RECREATION AREA PILAR, NM Reconnect with the río and conservation organizations. Food, music, fun. Kids welcome. Free float trips for Amigos Bravos members from Los Ríos River Runners. Directions, sponsorships, memberships ($35): 575.758.3874, membership@amigosbravos. org, www.amigosbravos.org
JUNE 5, 10 AM–2 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES WORKSHOP El Zócalo, 264 S. Cam. Del Pueblo, Bernalillo, NM Learn about NM incentive programs, tax credits, financing programs and more. NM Dept. of Workforce Solutions, USDA, Realty One of NM, Small Business Development Center, NM Economic Development Dept. and the NM Finance Authority. 10 am–1 pm: workshop; 1 pm–2 pm: open house. Registration: 505.891.4305, sandovaleconomicalliance.org/workshops JUNE 5–9 AND 12–16 SUMMER CAMP Santa Cruz, NM (near Española) Camino de Paz School & Farm and Española Valley Fiber Arts offer two weeks of crafts and fun. Children ages 7 to 11 may sign up for one or both weeks. $250/ wk. www.caminodepaz.net JUNE 10, 4 PM NM LAND CONSERVANCY 15TH ANNIVERSARY GALA Tamaya Hyatt Resort, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM A Celebration of 15 Years of Land Conservation and Heritage Preservation. Recognizing landowners, protecting landscapes. Petchesky Conservation Award honoring Courtney White. Silent & live auctions. Dinner, live music & dancing. $150. 505.986.3801, www. nmlandconservancy.org/ JUNE 10–12 FRACKING CHACO YOUTH AWARENESS RUN Chaco Canyon National Historic Park, NM An 80-mile youth run to bring attention to the effects fracking has on local communities in the greater Chaco area. The run will end in Farmington. Evening camping with “Southwest Culture Nights.” Organized by the Intl. Indigenous Youth Council. Howland4114@gmail.com, #FrackOffChaco, #internationalindigenousYouthCouncil
THIRD WEDS. MONTHLY, 5:30 & 7:30 PM TAOS ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK KTAOS Networking, presentations, discussion and professional services. Free. 505.776.7903, www.facebook.com/TaosNetwork/
JUNE 14, 1–4 PM SANDOVAL COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS CLASSES County Extension Office 711. S. Cam. del Pueblo, Bernalillo, NM Climate extremes & ways to buffer it with Judith Phillips. Urban horticulture series. Free classes. Continuing education for Master Gardeners. 505.867.2582, Sandoval@nmsu. edu, http://sandovalmastergardeners.org
ONGOING HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL HEALTH SUPPORT HCH COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER (LOWER ENTRANCE), 1397 WEIMER RD. 575.751.8909, mariam@taoshospital.com, TaosHealth.com
JUNE 14–18 GOOD MEDICINE CONFLUENCE FESTIVAL Durango, Colo. The Art of Healing. 100 unique classes. Learn herbal skills. Native plant walks, dance concerts. PlantHealer.org
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JUNE 19–24, 12:30–3:30 PM NMSU’S CAMP INNOVENTURE UNM West, Río Rancho, NM Experience in innovative thinking and entrepreneurial development for middle school students offered through a partnership with the Sandoval Economic Alliance. Free. https:// campinnoventureriorancho.eventbrite.com
JUNE 4, 9 AM–4 PM CORRALES GARDEN TOUR Corrales, NM Sweet Tree Farm, devoted to preserving heirloom trees and plants is one of six distinctive, private gardens on the self-guided tour. Tickets: $12/adv., $15 day of tour. www. corrales-gardentour.com, Info: 505.350.3955 or info@corrales-gardentour.com JUNE 4–10 GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN NM Ghost Ranch Education Center near Abiquiú Class includes 3 full-day excursions, including the Valle Caldera, Río Grande Gorge and a mining district near Dixon. 505.685.1000, ghostranch.org
JUNE 20–22 ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE ANIMAS AND SAN JUAN WATERSHEDS San Juan College, Farmington, NM 2nd annual conference. Emphasis on Gold King Mine and other mine waste issues. Hosted by the Water Resources Research Institute. https://animas.nmwrri.nmsu.edu/2017/
JUNE 22–JULY 23 WILD RIVERS PLEIN AIR PAINT-OUT Questa, NM area Plein Air artists’ interpretations of the Questa, San Cristobal, Lama, El Rito/Latir. Competition divisions: Landscape, Architecture, Youth (18 and younger). Info: wildriverspleinair@gmail. com, Registration: www.wildriverspleinair. com. 6/24, 5–7 pm: Awards Ceremony/ Opening at Ocho Gallery, 8 Hwy. 38, Questa, NM. Show open to the public through 7/23. JUNE 24, 7 PM FIELD TO FOOD FUNDRAISER Center for Ageless Living, 3216 Hwy 47 S., Los Lunas, NM Local foods and wines from within a 100-mile radius. 5-course dinner under the stars to celebrate healthy aging and support fresh, seasonal produce for homebound elders. 505.865.8813, nmagelessliving.com JUNE 27, 1:30–3:30 PM FUNDIT MEETING NM Dept. of Workforce Solutions 501 Rail Runner Ave., Bernalillo, NM The NM Economic Development Dept. will host this meeting to help local leaders identify local, state and federal funding for economic development. Communities should submit public interest project proposals by June 16 for review during the meeting. Info/RSVP: Johanna.Nelson@state.nm.us JULY 31 DEADLINE NM FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE Annual event features a vast range of creative filmmaking from New Mexicans around the state. No charge to enter. Showcase is free and open to the public. A panel of local film professionals judge the projects in various categories. 505.476.5671, belle.allen@nmfilm. com, nmfilm.com FIRST MONDAYS EACH MONTH, 3–5 PM SUSTAINABLE GALLUP BOARD Octavia Fellin Library, Gallup, NM The City of Gallup’s Sustainable Gallup Board welcomes community members concerned about conservation, energy, water, recycling and other environmental issues. 505.722.0039. MON., WED., FRI., SAT., 10 AM–4 PM PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM Nature center and outdoor education programs. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians, butterfly and xeric gardens. 505.662.0460, www.losalamosnature.org WEDS., 10 AM GREEN HOUR HIKES Los Alamos Nature Center, Los Alamos, NM Kid-centered hikes. Free. Losalamosnature.org FIRST 3 WEDS. EA. MONTH, 6–7 PM SOLAR 101 CLASSES 113 E. Logan Ave., Gallup, NM Free classes about all things related to off-grid solar systems. No pre-registration necessary. 505.728.9246, gallupsolar@gmail. com,Gallupsolar.org BASIC LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING Española area After training by the NM Coalition for Literacy, volunteer tutors are matched with an adult student. 505.747.6162, read@raalp.org, www. raalp.org/become-a-tutor.html SPIRIT OF THE BUTTERFLY 923 E. Fairview Land, Española, NM Women’s support group organized by Tewa Women United. Info/RSVP: Beverly, 505.795.8117
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