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Action Alert to protect our Acequias State Legislature action now thru Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Support HB 30, Water Lease Due Process Call, text, and email committee members: https://lasacequias.org/2021/01/31/action-alert-support-hb-30-water-lease-due-process/ in support of HB 30!! “I support HB 30 because it is important to protect water rights and due process.” “Please... Read More

Taos Land Trust (TLT) and Taos Valley Acequia Association (TVAA) received a Healthy Soils grant from NMDA to offer training, education, outreach, and support to acequia parciante landowners in the Rio Fernando de Taos watershed to implement Healthy Soil practices on their land. Judy Torres, Executive Director of TVAA, Maya... Read More

The Taos Land Trust has partnered with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to enhance bird conservation along the Rio Fernando corridor in Taos, New Mexico. Rio Fernando Wetlands Birding Resources Available Here Over the coming year, we will be collecting baseline birding data that will inform public bird habitat restoration demonstration sites with a... Read More

Friends, The uncertainties of 2020 inspired us to take a long look at how Taos Land Trust could protect not just the land and water of northern New Mexico, but also our neighbors, our children, and our elders. We saw immediate needs that TLT had the power to address, and... Read More

by Kan Namba, student, Climate Change Corp/Leadership in Forestry Training, UNM-Taos Over the summer of 2020, Darin Abeyta and myself, interns with the Climate Change Corp/Leadership in Forestry Training (CCC-LIFT) program at UNM Taos, had the opportunity to perform a groundwater study at Rio Fernando Park. We dug monitoring wells... Read More