NRCS Easement Newsletter 2024
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2024 Agricultural Land Easement Workshop Recommendations
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25th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser – Photos
The RGALT team would like to thank all of those who joined us in celebrating our 25th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Fundraiser. What a tremendous milestone for our organization! As much as our event is a fundraiser, it is a...
Celebrating 25 Years Serving the MRG’s Conservation Needs
It was 25 years ago, a diverse group of community members – farmers and conservationists - gathered at my kitchen table to discuss ways to protect farmland in Socorro County. The county was contemplating the establishment of a county zoning ordinance, potentially...
Leaving a Meaningful Legacy
Tucked down a quiet private road, sits a serene half acre alongside the Los Duranes acequia. This parcel, once part of a large farm along the Rio Grande, was the home of Meinrad Craighead, an artist and former contemplative nun. It was here, Meinrad created much of...
MRG Farms Under Threat
For 25 years RGALT has been working to protect farmland in the middle Rio Grande, the most populated area of NM, including Albuquerque, NM’s largest metropolitan area. The MRG landscape is being threatened due to increasing urbanization, loss of agricultural water...
The Common Thread: People and the Rio Grande
A new video by our partners at the Intermountain West Joint Ventures featuring RGALT’s CE landowner Ray Garcia – his farm, his family. Video production by Christi Bode.
Protecting Farmland Matters To The Community
June Membership Drive Protecting Farmland Matters to the Community For our final week of the June Membership Drive, we want to share board and staff reflections on what motivates their passion for protecting agricultural lands. "My professional life was devoted to...
Protecting Six Thousand Acres in the Middle Rio Grande
June Membership Drive Protecting Six Thousand Acres in the Middle Rio Grande Following our annual board retreat in February 2020, the Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust (RGALT) updated their Five-Year Strategic Plan. The overarching goal of the strategic plan calls...
RGALT’S WORK MATTERS TO THE COMMUNITY
PROTECT THE LAND AND WATER YOU LOVE, FOREVER! JUNE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE "We have all seen great changes in the landscapes we have lived in. Some of those changes may have been benign, or maybe even positive. Other changes have occurred so slowly that we have...
JOIN US IN PROTECTING NEW MEXICO’S MIDDLE RIO GRANDE!
June Membership Drive People have been living along the Rio Grande for centuries and have been dependent on the river for survival. The Rio Grande is not only critical for people, but the natural habitat and the farmland also provide essential habitat for wildlife...
The Importance of Protecting Our Local Food Shed
We hope this email finds you healthy, secure, and embracing time with your family and friends, and strengthening your community during these challenging times.
Protect Our Migratory Birds: Demand SunZia Energy Bury Rio Grande Transmission Lines
Click here to sign the petition! New Mexico's Rio Grande Corridor is one of the most important and fragile migratory bird corridors in North America. Over 350 species of birds traveling from eleven states are funneled down New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande corridor...
Growing Cranes
“Passion is fierce. Passion is gentle. Passion is about revealing the backside of your heart. I had the opportunity to spend more time taking in this magical migration and with the people who’ve put their passion into protecting it. When it comes to preserving and...
Conservation Hero: Hank Taliaferro
Hank Taliaferro has been selected as the 2018 Intermountain West Joint Venture private landowner conservation champion award winner! This award recognizes and honors private landowners for their contributions to natural resource conservation and management in the...
Conservation Heroes: The Gonzales’
Ernest Gonzales adored the section of the Rio Grande that passes through what used to be his 46-acre piece of property in Socorro County, New Mexico. Located on the east side of the Rio Grande floodplain just outside of San Antonio, New Mexico, this land provided him...
Harvest Dinner 2017: RGALT celebrates 20 year anniversary in September 2017
RGALT is thrilled to be celebrating 20 years of dedication to the protection of the land we all cherish for people and for wildlife in Central, New Mexico.We have achieved tremendous conservation work over the last 20 years, bringing millions of federal and state...
Conservation Heroes: The Mitchell’s conserve and restore the Rio Grande bosque
Matthew and Stephanie Mitchell live on 18 acres of land alongside the banks of the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico. Stepping onto the front porch of their small passive solar home, you are greeted by the sounds of a healthy Cottonwood-Willow gallery forest:...