On a very cold December 18, 2018 our buddies Steve Knox and Robert Templeton lead a group of volunteers through Rio Fernando Park as part of the annual Christmas Bird Count. The crew reported 143 individuals of 10 different species on their brief pass through the area. As you already... Read More
Youth Conservation Corps and the Taos Land Trust in 2018 From June 1st through August 17th, 2018, the Taos Land Trust employed 18 young New Mexicans through the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) to work the land at Rio Fernando Park and out in the greater Taos community. Besides accomplishing specific... Read More
If you’ve been watching our Facebook page or Instagram and Twitter feeds the past two weeks then you know that the riparian and wetland restoration work we have long planned at Rio Fernando Park is well under way. In the first stage we brought in forest restoration expert Mark Schuetz of Taos to remove the dozens... Read More
On Saturday evening October 6th, 120 of our closest friends joined us at Rio Fernando Park in Taos to celebrate the completion of our year-long master planning process for the park. And it was quite a party! A “matanza” is an old tradition here in northern New Mexico. Typically taking... Read More
We had a great group of birders join us last Friday for coffee, donuts and those really tasty little blueberry muffin thingies…oh, ya and all the birds! This was our Fall Migration Bird Walk in the wetlands of Fred Baca Park and Rio Fernando Park. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology‘s online EBird... Read More
About 60 Taos community members turned out last Saturday afternoon (August 18) at Rio Fernando Park to review the final draft plan for the park, ask questions, add comments and suggestions, tour the park and build giant nests. That’s right, giant nests. We are finishing up this master planning process... Read More