Community Outreach

The McKinley SWCD is involved in a variety of projects throughout the served communities.  The outreach portion of SWCD is geared mainly towards youth, encouraging them to become stewards to the land, and to learn the value of conservation work.  Below is a list of the various projects the SWCD has become involved with in McKinley County. 

Photo Gallery

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Gallery 1:

 Cottonwood Creek Planting, Bass Ranch CRP planting of cottonwood saplings with help from Wingate HS Biology Students and the Plant Materials Center of Los Lunas.  March 11, 2004

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Restoration work and surveys in Sunshine and Black Diamond Canyons, Northside of Gallup with Juan de Onate school students, November, 2003.

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Project WET Gallup Teacher Training: April 17, 2004 at Catholic Indian Center, West Hwy 66 in Gallup.  Project WET is an international, interdisciplinary water ecology and conservation curriculum for grades k-12.  With the new city ordinance to place more emphasis on water conservation education, Project WET is a great addition to the McKinley County educational system.

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National Soil and Water Stewardship Week, April 25th-May1st.  'Rolling Rivers', New Mexico Mobile River Study Unit, field day with over 80 Kids from Gallup and the surrounding area who learned about watershed ecosystems and built their own stream system to watch how erosion occurs and can be prevented.

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Earth Day / Sierra Club joint trash cleanup on CRP land project in Churchrock, NM.  The river channel is the Rio Puerco, currently in the first stages of riparian restoration under the Conservation Reserve Program.

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Red Rock Elementary School Broken Arrow Field Days.  The 5th grade class of Red Rock Elementary spends a day at the Broken Arrow Ranch in Vanderwagon, NM to learn about ecology, science, and field studies.  The McKinley SWCD spent the day presenting classes on soils and animal habitats.

COMING SOON!!!

New Mexico / Cuba SWCD Forestry Camp-June 6-11, 2004

2004 Summer Environmental Academy: Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, July 18-23, 2004