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Annual Report 2012 Santa Fe Conservation Trust Protecting the Land. Preserving Our Quality of Life. Annual Report 2012 Our Mission The Santa Fe Conservation Trust is dedicated to preserving the spirit of place among the communities of northern New Mexico by protecting open spaces and critical wildlife habitat, by creating trails, and by protecting the traditional landscapes of our diverse cultures. Placer Peak in the Ortiz Mountains. Staff from left to right: Charlie, McAllister, Mary Pat, Melissa Board of Directors 2012 Brad Holian Committee Members 2012 Staff 2012 Jim Jenkins, Board Chair Richard Hughes Jim Duncan, Jr. Charlie O’Leary David Chase, Treasurer Bill Johnson Frank Katz Executive Director Connie Bright, Vice Chair Jim Leonard Beth Mills Melissa Houser Tom Simons, Secretary Kent Little Laurel Savino Conservation & Development Andy Ault, At-Large Joanna Prukop Jane Terry Coordinator Margaret Alexander Janet Stoker Christopher Thomson Mary Pat Butler Murray Brott Kim Udall Executive Assistant Bill Cowles Advisory Board McAllister Yeomans Harlan M. Flint Jill Cooper Udall Offi ce Administrator * Cover art: “Too Early to Swim” by Peter Hagen; oil on linen. Annual Report concept and design by McAllister Yeomans A Letter from SFCT 012 was the “Year of the Trail” for the Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT) and the community: Funds that were necessary to ensure the 2completion of the La Piedra Trail were raised during the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and later Dale Ball helped celebrate the opening of this important new trail connection. The Sun Mountain Trailhead offi cially opened to the public with the help of the neighborhood and the City of Santa Fe. A portion of The Rail Trail was resurfaced to meet federal standards, and the Arroyo Hondo Open Space received a new parking area, trailhead and trail segment from Santa Fe County. The Galisteo Basin Preserve added several miles to their public trail system. SFCT hosted the Southwest Trails Conference at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, and the International Mountain Bike Association chose to host its semi-annual conference in this 400 year old city due in large part to the area’s high quality public trail systems. Volunteers were in- strumental to these successes and by donating hundreds upon hundreds of hours of their time on the trails and offering logistical support made it all possible. We know many of you were able to participate in one of these events; and continue to enjoy the fruits of these community-wide efforts that enrich our quality of life in northern New Mexico. Thank you for your support and enthusiasm for our programs - SFCT is expanding its reach in ways never before possible and conserving land so that it remains as it is today – with clean air and water, starry skies and heart stopping views. Our entire conservation program is gaining momentum - land, trails and dark skies – the result of providing a balanced and thoughtful ap- proach to protecting and promoting the natural world. Whether we are working with landowners to conserve land, negotiating more public access to the foothills, or assisting elementary school children with their astronomy lessons – SFCT is weaving important threads to create the fabric of a strong and lasting land ethic which benefi ts us all. Thank you again for your support in 2012 and beyond. Together we are building a land conservation legacy for all of northern New Mexico. Charlie O’Leary JimJiJ m JenkinsJenkkinns Executive Director ChairmanChhaiairmrman SFCT has a long history of working on trails. The following are trail projects in which we’ve played a pivotal role 1 Santa Fe Conservation Trust Mission Programs Saving Land Dark Skies FCT is a practical, on-the-ground partner for protecting special places forever. SFCT works ince 2008, many of you have participat- Swith landowners who are willing to sign voluntary, permanent land protection agreements Sed in our educational Star Party events, called conservation easements to conserve their land by retiring development rights and keep- organized in collaboration with the Capital ing the land in its natural state. The purpose of these agreements is to help protect: natural City Astronomy Club, Commonweal Conser- habitat for wildlife, agricultural or working ranches, open space with scenic views, historic or vancy, Salazar Elementary, Santa Fe Garden culturally important lands and lands for public recreation and/or education. Club, and Santa Fe Southern Railway to cel- Landowners enter into such agreements for a variety of reasons, including the desire to ebrate land conservation in New Mexico and keep the land as it is now and ensuring the next generation enjoys the natural wonder or cul- the importance of the connection between tural assets that the land contains. In most cases, these agreements allow landowners to access land and sky. signifi cant tax benefi ts from both federal and state programs. To further our work in Dark Skies we’ve added language to our conservation easement SFCT Accepts Two New template that supports the State of New Mex- Conservation Easements ico Night Sky Protection Act, which seeks to regulate outdoor night lighting fi xtures Just south of Santa Fe in the Galisteo to preserve and enhance the state’s dark sky Basin East Preserve, we helped protect 320 while promoting safety, conserving energy acres of land in two conservation easements and preserving the environment for astrono- in 2012. These two properties are conserved my. These terms will be monitored annually specifi cally for scenic open space and wild- and enforced in perpetuity. For more infor- life habitat. Additionally, the landowner has mation on light pollution - its harmful affect been working with WildEarth Guardians to to humans and wildlife - and how we can re- relocate families of the endangered Gunnison verse it, go to sfct.org/skies. Prairie Dog to one of the properties. To fi nd out more about SFCT’s protected lands visit sfct.org/land/protected-lands. 2 Conservation Easement & Service Area Map SFCT PROTECTED LANDS COUNTY BREAKDOWN 2012 County No. of No. CEs Acres Held Rio Arriba 6,890 7 Santa Fe 6,899 50 San Miguel 20,863 15 Taos 22 1 Total 34,674 73 Conservation Planning FCT has been utilizing GIS, a scien- Stifi c tool, to help identify important areas for conservation that align with our mission. By prioritizing key natural lands, we can pinpoint the most important areas in need of immediate protection. GIS guides our conservation priorities and allows us to work more effi ciently than ever before. Atalaya Trail: 1993-1997; 3.5 miles 3 Santa Fe Conservation Trust Mission Programs Monitoring and Stewardship ooking at a photo taken of the same spot changes that have taken place on the property Our fi rst responsibility is to provide stew- Lin 1995 I hardly recognize the place over time. As trees grow their branches shade ardship for the land; SFCT is the land’s per- where I am performing our annual monitor- the ground changing the understory, a light- manent partner, ensuring that the grantor’s ing. Is that really the same cactus? Nothing ning strike creates a meadow where there vision for the conservation of the property has been built on the land, but wow a lot has was a thicket, bark beetle infestation can is upheld. The conservation agreements we changed! In 2012, we began updating the transform a hillside of piñon pine into one monitor every year are not term easements, original baseline documentation on 40 of our of cactus and sparse grasses. Resources such rather each and every conservation agree- 73 existing properties. Some of these updates as springs or perennial streams are stressed ment we hold is in perpetuity – passing from are technology driven like GPS photo points, from draught; I document these changes in land owner to landowner generation after high resolution images and GIS mapping but our annual reports. generation. To fi nd out more about our pro- many of the updates document the natural tected lands visit sfct.org/land/stewardship. Photo from a baselini e documentation upu date: a conservation easement in Abiquiu, with propertty bob unu daariries (yellow lines),) photo points (PP) and soio l types: WTIS - Wara m-TeT mperatte Interior Strand Veegetaatiion (WiW lloww, Tamarisk), IRDD - Interior Riparian Decciduous Vegetation (Cottonwwood, Russian Olive), SV - Spap rsely VeV geetated due to exposed bedrock. 4 Santa Fe Conservation Trust Mission Programs Trails Trails Alliance of Santa Fe Accreditation On-Track n a hot summer day in 1993, a group of anta Fe Conservation Trust has been work- Ofriends gathered in the cool wine cel- Sing towards accreditation from the Land lar of the Inn of the Anazazi to discuss how Trust Accreditation Commission since 2009. they could help solve the issue of being cut- Thanks to the hard work of board and staff off from their beloved mountains. More and and guidance from an outside consultant, we more people were closing their properties will be submitting our completed application to “trespassers,” the arroyos and ridge trails in early September of 2013. Accreditation that had been in use for centuries were disap- FCT continues to plan ways to keep our is a mark of distinction in land conservation, pearing behind fences and walls. Construc- communities connected with trails and and to date, only 201 of the nearly 1,700 land tion was taking place in the foothills around S open space. Collaborating with the City and trusts in the U.S. have been accredited. the entrances to the forest trails, something County of Santa Fe, the Trails Alliance of To learn more about the accreditation needed to be done. Out of that fi rst meet- Santa Fe (TAOSF) is an all-volunteer group program and to submit a comment regarding ing, SFCT quickly formed a plan of action of advocates.
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