Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on September 6, 2020
Various Educational Webinars
April 23, 2020 – May 13, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 6 |
| Activity Hours | 10 |
| Participants | 2 |
| Total Hours | 28 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Trainings (WALTS, CAREs/GLOWs, research, conferences, workshops, etc.)
Key Partners: NM Wild, Mountain Studies Institute, 350.Org, Chaco Canyon activists, etc.
Landscape/area: Chaco Culture National Historical Park (33977 acres)
Short Description of Activity
7 meetings – 4/23 and 5/13 – Chaco Canyon issues – 2 hours total – NMWA; 4/27 – 350.org – Oil and Gas issues, 1.5 hrs; 4/29 – Sedges Webinar – 1.5 hrs – Mountain Studies Institute; 5/11- Gila conservation coalition – EA for CAP diversion dams on the west fork of the Gila River – 2 hours; 5/14 and 5/19 Mexican Gray Wolf EIS – 3 hrs total.
Reflection/Evaluation
All of the meetings were informative about best available science and variously useful for different comment opportunities. Each webinar helped us be up to date on local issues in New Mexico, so when we talk to legislators, we can be as knowledgeable as possible. The CAP diversion EA was dropped by the Interstate Stream Commission! The sedges webinar will help me with comments on a similar site in the Zuni Mts. Collaborative comments were written on several of these issues.