[Coalition_for_valle_vidal] Valle Vidal Restoration Work THIS WEEKEND

[Jim O'Donnell]

Comanche Creek Restoration Volunteer Weekend in the Valle Vidal

Saturday-Sunday August 26-27, 2006

The Quivira Coalition will hold a free  riparian restoration  volunteer 
work weekend on Comanche Creek in the Valle Vidal.  Come for  one or 
both days.  We appreciate all our volunteers and their hard work that 
has made  this project a success!

The Comanche Creek watershed, situated  in the Valle Vidal Unit of the 
Carson National  Forest, was historically logged, grazed by  domestic 
livestock and elk, hunted, and mined.   These activities created many 
roads,  overgrazed landscapes, decreased vegetation  and increased fine 
sediment along and within  the creek and watershed.   Various  
organizations and agencies have come together  over the past years to 
help restore Rio Grande  Cutthroat trout habitat along Comanche Creek.

Bill Zeedyk, Steve Carson and Craig  Sponholtz will lead groups of 
volunteers  to build restoration structures (vanes,  exclosures and 
various up-land  treatments) on the lower and middle  reaches of 
Comanche Creek.

This will be  a great opportunity to learn hands-on  how to design and 
install these  treatments!  Visit the Comanche Creek  Website 
(www.comanchecreek.org) for a  virtual overview of the project.

You can register on the Quivira website at www.quiviracoalition.org,  
or for more  information, contact Deborah at  505-820-2544 Ext. 5#, or 
e-mail  education at quiviracoalition.org;

  All registrants will receive a more detailed  informational letter 
that will include times, meeting location, directions and locally  
available accommodations and camping options.

This volunteer work weekend is sponsored by the EPA and NMED-Surface 
Water Quality   Bureau through a Clean Water Act Section 319 (h) Grant, 
the USFS Questa Ranger District,   the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, 
The Quivira Coalition, NM Trout and Trout Unlimited - Truchas Chapter.




Jim O'Donnell
Outreach Coordinator, Coalition for the Valle Vidal
www.vallevidal.org
PO Box 238
Taos, NM 87571
505-758-3874

Are you a member of the Coalition for the Valle Vidal?  Would you like 
to support our efforts?  Join or contribute today at: 
http://www.vallevidal.org/involved.html