Quivira Coalition

by Bill Zeedyk and Jan-Willem Jansens

A Joint Publication from Earth Works Institute, The Quivira Coalition and Zeedyk Ecological Consulting
Third Edition - April 2009

"This field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more vegetation, and reduces soil erosion. In the end, soil conservation will reduce "non-point source pollution" in surface watercourses. This guide focuses on affordable and replicable techniques based on natural processes and advocates the use of low-cost and locally available, natural materials."

A Method for Restoring Stability to Incised Stream Channels
by Bill Zeedyk

A Joint Publication from Earth Works Institute, The Quivira Coalition and Zeedyk Ecological Consulting
Fourth Edition - April 2009

"This is an illustrated field guide for use by participants of riparian restoration educational workshops and field tours, along with contractors and volunteers (during installation of structures). It is a general promotion for Bill Zeedyk's techniques for a broad audience that include project managers, government officials, and others."

by Nathan Sayre and Kirk Gadzia

A Joint Publication from Earth Works Institute, The Quivira Coalition and the Rio Puerco Management Committee
Fourth Edition - April 2009

This field guide is an introduction to grazing management designed to help landowners, contractors, and agency personnel make better grassland management decisions. Grazing can have a deleterious effect on water quality, if it is not managed well. Improved management decisions will increase vegetative cover, control erosion, and improve animal production.

A Review of a Collaborative Restoration Project on Rowe Mesa, San Miguel County, New Mexico by Courtney White
The Quivira Coalition and The Four Corners Institute Santa Fe, New Mexico August 2006

Excerpt:
"Between 2001 and 2005, a collaborative, science-based restoration treatment project - called Rincon Ortiz CFRP - was successfully implemented on three hundred acres of ponderosa/pinon-juniper woodland on Rowe Mesa, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Equally important was the success of the social goal of the project: to involve local residents in economic and educational activities related to a forest health restoration effort so that the link between cultural continuity and the restoration of natural ecological processes can be strengthened. Combined, the goals yielded two major lessons learned: 1) how to do the work properly, and; 2) an indication that ecological restoration might not necessarily come with significant social cost and conflict."

Environmental Justice and Public Lands Ranching in Northern New Mexico
by Ernest Atencio

A Report by The Quivira Coalition and the Northern New Mexico Group of the Sierra Club
Second Printing ~ December 2004

• Maps and Tables
• Preface by Courtney White
• Environmental Justice in Northern New Mexico
• Poverty and Subsistence Ranching
• Consequences of Ending Public Lands Ranching
• Culture, Ecology, Belonging
• Grazing Practice and Policy
• Toward a Sustainable Future

Essays on Ranching, Conservation, and Science
The Quivira Coalition - 2003

We do not have a download version available for this publication. They are available for free in our office and at the Annual Conference.

Excerpt:
"There is a story almost totally unknown outside the West, but urgently discussed every day now in the western press: the story of a steadily growing number of local agreements among western environmentalists, ranchers, loggers, miners, and recreationists about how the public land or natural resources should be managed in their particular river drainage or their ecosystem. The emergence of this indigenous form of western problem-solving is almost precisely what Wallace Stegner had predicted and urged when he spoke of the West 'outliving its origins' by learning lessons of cooperation." -Daniel Kemmis, Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West

Forest Restoration on the Rowe Mesa Grassbank: A K-12 Curriculum Guide
By Tori Derr
"This curriculum provides opportunities for youth to learn many aspects of science, including some principles of forest restoration, observation and measurement skills, problem solving, and how people are currently influencing the forest where they live. These concepts are part of national and state standards for science literacy. Science literacy includes not just the understanding of scientific concepts, but also the role of science in society. By teaching about aspects of a specific restoration project, we hope to provide a broad opportunity for students to understand both aspects of scientific literacy."