Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on September 30, 2019
Cibola, Carson, Santa Fe NFs Coalition conference calls
August 26, 2019 – September 3, 2019
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 2.5 |
| Participants | 3 |
| Total Hours | 8 |
Key Issue: Landscape-level Planning
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)
Key Partners: TWS, NMWA, Backcountry H&A, Sierra Club. NMNPS, NM Wildlife Fed., Amigos Bravos, Trout Unlimited, many others…
Landscape/area: Cibola National Forest (1616435 acres)
Short Description of Activity
These two phone calls were designed to plan advocacy strategies for wilderness, watershed health, riparian areas, and wildlife protections that need to be adopted in the forest plans for all three forests.
Reflection/Evaluation
Goal was to become more informed on what the larger conservation groups want to advocate for. It tunrs out that their goals are pretty much in line with ours as the Broads. This should make it easier to write comments from us as individuals.