2024 Farm Dinner Fundraiser
Join Us in Celebrating 27 Years of Conservation!
The Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust invites you to join us for an unforgettable evening at our Urban Farm Dinner!
NRCS Easement Newsletter May 2024
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NRCS Easement Newsletter March 2024
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2024 Agricultural Land Easement Workshop Recommendations
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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.
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...
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:...
Remembering 20 years of Conservation
During NM Governor Bill Richardson’s first term in office, I was director of policy and issues, and I dealt with matters concerning water. During that time, Cecilia Rosacker and several colleagues approached the Governor’s office about the possibility of obtaining...
Conservation Easements & Restoration Help Protect Landowners from Wildfire
From her Socorro County farm, RGALT’s director, Cecilia Rosacker, saw the black cloud billowing in the distance. The culprit was a fire in the Escondida area of the Rio Grande Bosque—a place near 4 of RGALT’s conservation easements. The following morning, with smoke...
Creating a String of Pearls
Conservation easements, land trusts, restoration projects—these tools of land and natural resource protection can seem a bit abstract and complex. However, once you meet the people behind them, the value of these tools paired with the passion and amazing synergy among...
Accreditation!
RGALT today announced it has achieved accreditation – a mark of honor in land conservation. The Land Trust Accreditation Commission awarded accreditation, signifying its confidence that RGALT lands will be protected forever. Accredited land trusts across the country...
Conservation Easements 101
A conservation easement (CE) is a voluntary and legally binding land protection agreement between a landowner (grantor) and a qualified conservation organization (grantee). Grantor and grantee work together to customize a CE appropriate to the land, as well as in...