Aldos Silver City • Entered by Marcia Stout on August 28, 2025
Plan Service Project Gathering
July 9, 2025 – July 31, 2025
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 3.5 |
| Participants | 4 |
| Total Hours | 14 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Gila National Forest
Landscape/area: Gila National Forest (2658321 acres)
Short Description of Activity
We met several times to plan for a September 2025 service project gathering, to include two service projects coupled with a broadband camp out. This year our project area is in the far western part of the Gila Natl. Forest (GNF) near the NM/ AZ border. We contacted several GNF staff to discuss monitoring of the Stone Creek restoration efforts, primarily to set up photo points. We are very familiar with this area because it is also one of our riparian grazing monitoring areas, including the nearby San Francisco River. Planning also included a scouting trip by the leader to check out the campground we would be “surveying” for condition of features, and the group campground we could reserve nearby in AZ. Then four of us met to discuss initial planning.
Reflection/Evaluation
Went fine. Planning will continue. The camping will be “rougher” this year without as many amenities relative to what is available in the area, but the main purpose is the service projects. So we don’t expect as many participants this year, but again the goal is to offer a highly relevant service project in conjunction with National Public Lands Day (or thereabouts) and gathering in the group campground afterward.