From Mountaintop to River Bottom Restoring New Mexico's Watersheds

From Mountaintop to River Bottom: Restoring New Mexico's Watersheds

September 30 - October 2
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Marriott Uptown, 2101 Louisiana Boulevard, NE

The first ever New Mexico Watershed Forum provides an opportunity to:

> Learn about other watershed projects and restoration techniques

> Increase Collaboration and communication about watershed restoration

> Network with watershed groups across New Mexico

> Share successes, challenges and innovations

This statewide forum will bring together agencies, organizations, professionals, educators and citizens with an interest in watershed management, restoration and protection. Presentations and workshops will provide tools and information for people doing watershed restoration on the ground. A day of field trips will provide on-site learning about restoration projects. We are also looking for:

Task Force Member - Lucy Collier

Lucy Collier moved from Massachusetts to New Mexico to join her parents in 1972 and has been living in Alcalde and more recently Chimayó since then. She worked as an early interventionist, a diagnostician, and finally a developmental psychologist at UNM. She retired several years ago but keeps her hand in with families at Las Cumbres. She helped to establish the Chimayó History Museum, curated an extensive show of until then undocumented Chimayó and el Valle weavings, and initiated an intergenerational weaving project in the Cordova school. She served as an election monitor in Bosnia-Herzogovinia several times. She produced an oral history video documenting the memories of folks still around who had been photographed by New Deal photographers. She helped organize her community to pressure T-Mobile to move its cell tower out of the Historic District of Chimayó. Resolution with the County and the FCC is still pending. However better standards for cell towers have been adopted by Rio Arriba County as a result. She is a musician, a gardener, and continues to fight for preservation of tradition and culture in her adopted community.

Email:lcpm@valornet.com