This project involves restoration work along Cedro Creek in the Cibola National Forest, with-in the Sandia Mountains. The goal is to restore approximately two miles of stream and create approximately sixteen acres of wetlands and wet meadows. School children, teachers, restoration trainees, local residents, environmental organizations and other cooperators will help implement treatments.

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Since 2002, we have been the chief organizer of a collaborative restoration project along Comanche Creek, located in the western half of the Valle Vidal unit of the Carson National Forest, near the Colorado state line. This project is funded by the EPA, under its Clean Water Act mandate, and includes the Forest Service, the New Mexico Environment Department - Surface Water Quality Bureau, New Mexico Game & Fish, Trout Unlimited-Truchas Chapter, New Mexico Trout, the Valle Vidal Grazing Association, the Youth Conservation Corps, Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, Rangeland Hands, Resource Management Services, Stream Dynamics and others.

This educational and collaborative demonstration project with the Rainbow Ranch section of the Dry Cimarron, centers on grazing management and riparian restoration using techniques described in our Riparian Restoration workshops, newsletters and field guides.

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Largo Creek
In 2001 The Quivira Coalition began working with a Catron County rancher, at his request, and the U.S. Forest Service to develop a new management plan for his ranch.

Loco Creek
On the Williams Ranch in 2003, work shifted from Largo Creek to Loco Creek, an ephemeral tributary that is deeply incised and a major source of erosion.

The Mesteño Draw Ranch, established in 1991 by Joan Bybee, is located 7 miles north of Mountainair, New Mexico along the base of the Manzano Mountains within a Piñón/Juniper Grassland ecosystem.