We will make Seed Bursts of local mud, clay, and seeds to be used for spreading native and healing seeds throughout our community. This is an activity that educates us on local plants, medicinal herbs and connecting ourselves to the earth. Register for this event here. Learn more about Environmental Justice Community Days here.
Come spread sunflower seeds with the community. Members of Recuerda Cesar Chavez Committee will be offering a workshop on seed ball making and sunflower seed spreading. We will also partner with UNM graduate students to plant seeds and vegetable starts in the community Wisdom Garden. Our Humanity project will offer a free COVID-19 vaccination pop-up clinic, COVID-19 at-home tests, and ...
Join Adobe Whitewater Club for a paddle skills 101 outing combined with Environmental Justice education on Mountain View community issues and Rio Grande history. We will travel the Rio from Bridge/Central to Rio Bravo or Rio Bravo to Isleta. Space is limited but sure to RSVP. Register for this event here. Learn more about Environmental Justice Community Days here. ...
This will be a type of swap meet that will focus on trading, bartering, selling, buying or giveing away things, products, services and skills from participants. Food and Drink will be available for sale. LJI will provide: Copies of Principles, Water, free COVID tests, and carrots. Register for this event here. Learn more about Environmental Justice Community Days here.
Join us on the Refuge for a tile making workshop with ALMA. Register for this event here. Learn more about Environmental Justice Community Days here.
Join us at Canteen Brewhouse for our first Beer Fundraiser of 2022! Stop by the brewery on Thursday, May 26 between 5 and 9 pm to enjoy the beer, live music and some time with the Friends. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Friends of Valle de Oro. You can purchase a beer and commemorative pint glass combo for ...
Join us on the Refuge for a Star Party! This event is held in partnership with the Albuquerque Astronomical Society.
Celebrate Latino Conservation Week at the Valle de Oro NWR! Join us for a family movie night on July 15. We'll be screening Encanto at the Refuge! The "doors" open at 7:30pm. The movie begins at 8pm. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event is held in partnership with the Hispanic Access Foundation and Latino Outdoors. For more information, contact Jaidyn Armijo-Sonnenberg at jaidyn_armijo-sonnenberg@fws.gov. ...
The Bosque Education Guide is an interdisciplinary curriculum about the Middle Rio Grande Valley ecosystem. The curriculum provides classroom-based and field activities for students grades K-12. For the central activity, students construct a model of the Middle Rio Grande and then manipulate the paper and cloth pieces to demonstrate human impacts over the last two hundred years. Later, they "restore" the ecosystem. ...
Celebrate Latino Conservation Week at the Valle de Oro NWR! Join us for an Outdoors 101 event on July 16th from 10 am - 2 pm. Activities will include camping and packing basics, outdoor first aid, and fishing! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event is held in partnership with the Hispanic Access Foundation and Latino Outdoors. For more information, contact Jaidyn Armijo-Sonnenberg at ...
