Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Linda Starr on June 20, 2021
RGVBB Shining River Project
June 6, 2021
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 0.25 |
| Activity Hours | 2.5 |
| Participants | 10 |
| Total Hours | 27.25 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Albuquerque Open Space
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Clean-up (1 parcels)
Outcome 2: Other (14 trees)
Short Description of Activity
The RGVBB was back for a hot morning of beaver fencing for young cottonwoods planted by Open Space. Our job is to fence these trees to keep the beavers from gnawing on these young trees to give them a chance. With our drought conditions, it is questionable that their planting down to the Rio Grande water table is going to be deep enough for their survival, but other trees we have fenced previously were doing well. We secured some of the fence posts from the previous trip. One of our members likes to work on trash pickup under the Paseo del Norte bridge near where we work. She filled an entire bag of trash by herself. Some other participants walked along our adopted Shining River Trail to get familiar with the trail and the work we have done there. They also picked up trash left behind by careless and stupid people.
Reflection/Evaluation
We had a great turnout of 10 participants (including me), with all but one working on the fencing. All of us had been vaccinated. Yay! We hoped to finish all of the young trees, but it was too hot to persist in our work beyond 11:00 a.m. But we fenced 14 trees. I was glad to see that we had at least one participant return for the 2nd time to help with this project. Our brunch/coffee get-together was well-attended by 6 participants and one of our active members who can no longer do this kind of activity.
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Rio Grande Valley Broadband, Shining River Project, June 6, 2021