Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on March 22, 2022
Sandia Collaborative General Meetings
January 18, 2022 – March 15, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 3 |
| Post Admin hours | 13 |
| Activity Hours | 5 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 21 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Relationship Building with non-white and/or frontline communities (relational meetings, attending events, community support, etc.)
Key Partners: Ciudad SWCD, FOSM, CNM Audubon, AMBA, Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, Sandia Nordic Ski Club, NM Native Plant Society, Sandia Mt. Bear Collab. Acequia de Los Placitas, NM XC Ski Club, Sandia Mt. Natural History Center, Coronado SWCD, EMRTC, NM RX Fire Council, Bernallilo County Open Space, National Parks, RGVBB, etc.
Landscape/area: Sandia Mountain Wilderness (37256 acres)
Short Description of Activity
By the way, none of the activity types fit the description for a lot of what I do with collaboratives. This is pretty annoying. Can it be fixed?
There were three full Sandia Collaborative meetings in this quarter – one on 1/18, one on 2/15 and one on 3/15/2022. Eaandich one is scheduled for 1.5 hours; sometimes they stretch out to 2 hours. However, I write the summaries for the meetings, and also am in charge of sharing for editing details. finalizing the summary, and posting it to the collaborative website. This generally takes about 4-5 hours per meeting.
Reflection/Evaluation
These meetings are moving in a good direction in terms of including discussions of wildlife corridors, wildfire mitigation, invasive plant identification, removal and monitoring, and interference by recreational users and their trails with wildlife habitat. It has taken many months to convince some of the other collaborative members that these issues are the primary purpose of healthy public lands, but they are definitely coming to that conclusion. The collaborative has also seen a more inclusive attitude toward adjacent indigenous communities, acequia members and land grant members, although these groups as a whole are strongly opposed to increasing Recommended Wilderness and Wild and Scenic River Recommendations.