News & Events

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

You are invited to two important, upcoming workshops! FREE Healthy Soils Workshop at Rio Fernando Park Cover crops, no-till seeding, and home garden applications – Online Webinar – Part 2 of 2 Monday, October 26th, 2020 at 5:30 PM For a link to the zoom webinar, email: ben@taoslandtrust.org Hosts: Ben... Read More

By Chyna Dixon, Working Lands Resiliency Coordinator This summer, Taos Land Trust, in collaboration with community partners, built and distributed 80+ planting-ready 4×8 garden boxes – complete with soil, irrigation equipment, hoop house coverings, and seed – to families in our community.  Among the many existing structural inequities that COVID-19... Read More