From 1997 to present, over 1 million acres, at least 20 linear miles of riparian drainages and 10,000 people have benefited from The Quivira Coalition's collaborative efforts through:

Land Health and Riparian Restoration Demonstration Projects:

• Macho Creek (near Deming, NM)
• Nacimiento Copper Mine (near Cuba, NM)
• Largo and Loco Creeks (near Quemado, NM)
• Dry Cimarron River (near Folsom, NM)
• Comanche Creek (Carson N.F., NM)
• Cedro Creek (near Albuquerque, NM)
• Mesteño Draw (near Mountainair, NM)
• Valle Grande Ranch (Rowe Mesa, NM)
• Red Canyon Reserve (near Magdelena, NM)

~Educational Events Around the Region:

• 8 Annual Conferences
• Other Conferences (in NM, AZ, UT) - on Grassbanks, Collaborative Stewardship, the New Ranch and the Radical Center.
• Over 80 Riparian & Rangeland Health Workshops throughout New Mexico and Arizona
• Capacity-Building Trainings - 1) Water Harvesting for NM Dept. of Transportation Roads & 2) Riparian Restoration for Practitioners.

~Numerous Publications and Outreach Articles:

• Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels
• The New Ranch Handbook
• Forging a West that Works
• Of Land and Culture: Environmental Justice and Public Lands Ranching
• Bullseye!: Targeting Your Rangeland Health Objectives
• A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land: Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads
• Newsletters
• Journals
• Bulletins
• Field Guides
  • Rangeland Health & Planned Grazing Field Guide
  • An Introduction to Erosion Control
  • An Introduction to Induced Meandering: A Method for Restoring Stability to Incised Stream Channels

~Speaking Engagements:
The Executive Director and other staff members have delivered over 100 lectures at Conferences, Retreats, and Workshops around the region.

~Collaborations with over 40 other organizations and private landowners and consultants.

~Websites

• Quivira Coalition
• Comanche Creek Comanche Creek
• New Ranch Network and Directory New Ranch Network

~The New Ranch Network, where numerous Grants/Projects have been given or implemented throughout New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

~Land Health Services that have included Rangeland Health Assessments and mapping projects on ranches in NM, AZ, CO and UT.

~Clarence Burch Awards Given For:

• Progressive Ranch Management
• Collaborative work on populations of the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.
• Leadership, inspiration, and innovation, for riparian restoration projects across the region.
• Leadership in a successful, collaborative partnership among ranchers, federal land managers, and conservationists focused on the diverse biological resources of the Empire Ranch.
• Successful collaborative effort to mend fences and relationships in a corner of volatile Catron County.
• Leadership in bridging the urban-rural divide in the region through education, innovation, and good humor.
• Setting an example of collaborative, innovative and progressive land stewardship on the Navajo Nation.
• Collaborative efforts for providing a good future for agriculture, people and critters of the Madison Valley.

~Quivira Coalition Recognition Awards. To mark our 10th anniversary, we implemented a new annual award dedicated to the "four legs" of The Quivira Coalition's original "chair" - ranchers, conservationists, civil servants, and researchers. We recognize those individuals in each category who have shown remarkable and enduring leadership in the difficult job of working in the radical center.

~Recognition Awards Received:

• Soil and Water Conservation Society New Mexico Chapter Merit Award (1998)
• The Santa Fe Community Foundation 1998 Piñon Award
• New Mexico Community Foundation: An Outstanding 1999-2000 Grantee Organization
• New Mexico Riparian Council: 2005 Public Awareness/Education Award
• New Mexico Riparian Council: 2005 Partnership Award

~Various Project Funding Sources:

• 5 EPA-319 (h) Water Quality multi-year Grants
  • Valle Grande Grassbank
  • Nacimiento Mine
  • Comanche Creek (I & II)
  • Dry Cimarron River
• 2 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants
  • New Ranch Handbook
  • Largo Creek Restoration Project
• 1 EPA multi-year Wetland Restoration Grant
  • Cedro Creek
• 5 Collaborative Contractual Grants (public and federal funds)
  • Earth Works Institute EPA 319 (h) Water Quality Grant
  • Rio Puerco Management Committee
  • Collaborative Forest Restoration Projects
  • Rio Puerco Management Committee
    • Watershed Initiative
• New Ranch Network supported by the USDA Forest Service, PNM, Environmental Defense, Thaw Charitable Foundation and The Dixon Water Fund.

~Operational Support received from numerous private foundations, Annual Memberships, an Annual 'Investor' Campaign, and various fund raising events.

~The support and participation of over 1,000 diversified members that include ranchers, land managers/owners, federal/state employees, tribal entities, the general public, and conservationists.

~In 2006, we became members of the NM Cattlegrowers' Association and we produced and sold beef from our own cattle herd on the Valle Grande Ranch.

~Through the hard work and dedication to the mission of 7 very busy Staff and 12 Board Members.

(To learn more about The Quivira Coalition visit the About Us page.)