The Quivira Coalition would like to invite you to attend our 2009 Practitioner’s Workshop at Red Canyon Reserve. The workshop will offer you a chance to work directly with leading ecological restoration specialists as they try out innovative new techniques in erosion control, stream-grade, and stream-bank stabilization. We have identified 22 sites along 2,700 feet of “Windmill Draw” that will be treated with your help during this workshop.
Workshop Events Include:
* Land Health Demonstrations
* Using Woodland Thinning Materials for Erosion Control — Steve Carson
* Monitoring for Rangeland Health — Kirk Gadzia
* Windmill Draw Meadow Restoration Project — “The Practitioners”
* A Hike of Red Canyon Reserve: Exploring the Successes and Failures of Land Management — Cullen Hallmark & Steve Carson
Land health treatments will include novel approaches like one rock dams, rock rundowns, zuni bowls, media lunas, and other restoration techniques.
Located southwest of Socorro (NM) nestled among the foothills of the San Mateo Mountains, the Red Canyon Reserve is being developed by The Quivira Coalition as a field station for pioneering land health treatments. Hard against the boundary of the Cibola National Forest, this 320-acre property was bequeathed to The Quivira Coalition by the estate of Michael Belshaw with the express stipulation that it be “devoted to activities directed toward the preservation of the land and the wildlife, including, but not limited to, a wildlife refuge, research station, study retreat, or a demonstration ranch.”
For more information, visit:
www.quiviracoalition.org