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River Restoration Opportunities
River Restoration Opportunities
Photo: Adriel Heisey
In
this land of little rain, healthy green river corridors are
literally the lifeblood of our communities. We are working to
restore our riparian areas.
State Lands
In 1996, Forest Guardians pioneered a path to help bring
restoration to state lands by becoming the first non-ranching
entity to successfully out-compete ranchers for a grazing lease.
We’ve challenged the livestock industry’s stranglehold on state
lands and now we’re working to heal as many waterways as
possible on these publicly owned state lands.
As a result of successful litigation, Forest Guardians has
opened the door to individuals and organizations to lease state
lands in New Mexico and Arizona. There are still millions of
acres and miles and miles of streams that are in need of
protection and restoration on state lands.
City and County Lands
We are working with local governments, including the City of
Santa Fe and Santa Fe County. This collaboration has allowed
Forest Guardians to protect and restore nearly four miles of the
Santa Fe River.
We are currently investigating other options to expand river
restoration with other Southwestern cities, towns and local
governments.
Private Lands
In 2004, Forest Guardians signed our first-ever agreement with a
private land-owner who shares our vision of preserving wildlands
for future generations. We are interested in creating and
holding land trusts (conservation easements) in limited
instances, focusing exclusively where there is the potential to
conserve ecologically significant lands where river restoration
and protection opportunities exist.
For specific questions about our conservation efforts,
contact Jim Matison,
River Restoration Director.
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