Four Corners • Entered by Jennifer Singer on October 17, 2022
September Relationship Building and Outreach
September 1, 2022 – September 26, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 5 |
| Post Admin hours | 5 |
| Activity Hours | 16 |
| Participants | 5 |
| Total Hours | 90 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Hannah Ertl- Trees, Water, and People. Scott Clow- Ute Mtn Ute Environmental Office
Short Description of Activity
Sept. 2nd 2022- Hike with Bob and Nancy Marion- 4Corners Broadband members Pat McClenny and I hiked Section House Trail with Bob and Nancy. We hope to build a hiking group and adopt a trail for stewardship.
Sept 7th 2022- Call with Diane McBride CANM Site Stewards- Connecting 4Corners Broadband with Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen to help monitor and protect cultural resources at CANM by horseback to reach sites that the regular hiking stewards can’t access.
Sept 13th 2022- Mancos Canyon Stewardship Project with Ute Mountain Ute. Call with Hannah Ertl. Form teams from interested Broadbands to help on a years long restoration project on Ute Mountain Ute lands at Mancos Canyon. We’ll form teams and get a permit to partner with Ute Mtn Ute conservationists to do invasive removal of Tamarisk and Russian Olive, re-vegetate with native plants and traditional harvest plantings, and riparian area restoration. Mostly fall/summer work.
Sept. 26th- White Mesa Mill Protest and Spirit Walk planning Zoom. I put a face to people I had spoken to by phone and/or email- Janice Archuleta, Scott Clow, Yolanda Badback.
Sept. 16th 2022- CANM Status and Strategy Zoom meeting- Michael Saul Western Watersheds intro to CANM grazing issues. Shared Leadership with Native groups discussed. Steph will make contact and see who is interested. I sent her an email listing Zuni contacts featured in a new exhibit at CANM.
Sept. 22nd CANM Star Party- I promoted the star parties on FaceBook, by our group email, and in person for our September 4Corners Broadband monthly activities.
September 24 Mesa Verde Star Party- Beautiful evening with Navajo star stories.
September 26- White Mesa Mill planning Zoom
Reflection/Evaluation
Our goal of reaching out to our Ute Mountain Ute neighbors is progressing and we are building relationships for a years long restoration project at Mancos Canyon. They have received a grant for the restoration and Scott Clow is beginning the permit process. Sally will help us reach out to other Broadbands and make a spreadsheet of teams for the permit we need to cross into Ute lands. I asked Scott if there was an October event for Mancos Canyon and he said to bring people to the White Mesa Mill event instead. He started with my vehicle info and we’ll get the group permit going this winter.
We are adding members from our outreach activities like the seed collecting on the Ute lands that I wrote about last month. Not sure how many 4Corners Broadband members attended the star parties. There were hundreds of people at Mesa Verde and both events were held in the dark, so you couldn’t really tell if any Broads were there, but I loved attending both.
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Photo Captions
Hike at Section House Trail with 4Corners Broads and Bro Pat McClenny, Bob and Nancy Marion, Jennifer Singer.