To mark our 10th Anniversary Year The Quivira Coalition is pleased to announce its first campaign:

The Land & Water Fund
The goal of this reserve fund is to improve ecological, economic, social and land health, including the health of The Quivira Coalition.

Land & Water Funds will be applied to projects that improve land health through riparian & upland habitat restoration practices & maintenance, grazing management, ranch infrastructure repair, road rehabilitation, watershed planning, implementation of best management practices, or an educational activity that has a direct impact on soil, grass, or water.

We have received a Challenge grant from Earth Friends Wildlife Foundation. Land & Water Fund.pdf

Money from the Fund will be used in two ways:
1) To support new and on-going Land & Water projects of The Quivira Coalition
(including those that are no longer supported through federal or state grants). For more information about these projects click on the links below.

• Valle Grande Demonstration Ranch, a 36,000 acre public lands ranch located on Rowe Mesa, with upland habitat restoration projects, education and outreach events such as low-stress livestock handling clinics, a local pasture-raised beef program and use as a Grassbank (an innovative land management tool).
• The Red Canyon Reserve - a 320-acre wildlife and education reserve located southwest of Socorro, bounded on three sides by national forest, ideal for workshops and trainings.
• Valles Caldera Grazing Partnership - In 2007, we will partner with Jack & Pat Hagelstein in their livestock and outreach program on the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
• Comanche Creek - a multi-year restoration project on the Valle Vidal unit of the Carson N.F. focused on the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout see www.comanchecreek.org ).
• Cedro Creek - a multi-year wetlands & watershed restoration and training project supported through 2007 with EPA Wetland Grants Program funds and located in a watershed just east of Albuquerque involving volunteers from the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, PNM, local residents, school children and Quivira Volunteers.
• Largo & Loco Creeks - multi-year Induced Meandering projects with Bill Zeedyk on the Williams ranch near Quemado, NM, implemented by the land owner and volunteers.
• Dry Cimarron - a multi-year riparian restoration project near Folsom, NM originally supported with an EPA 319 (h) Water Quality Grant, landowner funds and many volunteer hours.
• Mesteño Draw a multi-year riparian and upland restoration project near Mountainair, NM, along the base of the Manzano Mountains within a Pinyon/Juniper Grassland ecosystem. Supported by landowner funds, the NRCS, Claunch-Pinto SWCD and Quivira Volunteers.

2) The New Ranch Network (NRN) The goal of this project is to respond to the specific needs of a landowner, association, or community - `eager learners' - and give them whatever assistance we can through a network of ranchers, scientists, consultants, specialists, conservationists, volunteers and others. This assistance is in the form of Referrals, Coaches, Mentors, Specialists, a Grant Program, and a Web-based Directory. All NRN assistance is matched 1 to 1 by the local community or individual, either through a cash match or in-kind contribution.

OUR GOAL IS TO RAISE $60,000!
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