Projects
Since 1997, Quivira has worked on hundreds of innovative and successful projects to build soil and resilience on western working lands.
Mesteño Draw Ranch
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. Mesteño Draw, as Joan has named her section of the creek, is the lower extension of Ox Canyon that rises from a spring in the Manzano Mountains and continues into the closed Estancia Basin. These are historic lands with old pinto bean fields and five different homestead sites dotting the landscape. Joan is in the process of rejuvenating the ranch and riparian area with brush removal and managed grazing. Mesteño Draw once provided continual water to homesteads and was used to irrigate lawns in Mountainair. Due to many factors that include drought, fire suppression, juniper invasion, and year-round grazing, the creek no longer has a perennial flow.
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Dry Cimmaron
Since 1997, Quivira has worked on hundreds of innovative and successful projects to build soil and resilience on western working lands. Dry Cimmaron This educational and collaborative demonstration project with the Rainbow Ranch section of the Dry Cimarron, centers on...
Cedro Creek
Since 1997, Quivira has worked on hundreds of innovative and successful projects to build soil and resilience on western working lands. Cedro Creek This project involves restoration work along Cedro Creek in the Cibola National Forest, in the Sandia Mountains, with...
Largo and Loco Creeks
Since 1997, Quivira has worked on dozens of innovative and successful projects to build soil and resilience on western working lands. Largo CreekIn 2001 The Quivira Coalition began working with a Catron County rancher, at his request, and the U.S. Forest Service to...