Surely of interest to various #Mountainair groups ~ arts council, historical society (if we still had one), school district, Sidewalk Preservation Project, local preservation projects that meet funding requirements (e.g. non profit status). Press release, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, from Craig L. Newbill (505) 277-3705. State of New Mexico to Fund Centennial of Statehood Grants: A dozen or more projects celebrating New Mexico's Centennial of Statehood will receive grants from a state planning group, the New Mexico Centennial of Statehood Steering Committee  Beginning August 15, 2010, the Steering Committee will accept applications from non profit organizations. |
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
NM Centennial Grants
Monday, June 28, 2010
Everybody Eats: #Mountainair Community Garden Update
Garden Manager, Joan Embree, reports on the June 26 planning meeting,
Community garden participants met briefly on Saturday, June 26, to decide on future garden activities. The garden has grown a large crop of lamb's quarters and sunflowers that no one seems to be harvesting, and the parsley and arugula have gone to seed.
Some of the vegetables that Kate and her after-school students planted are doing quite well. It seems that the combination of in-ground ollas and above-ground water bottles has helped the timed watering system keep things alive. The easternmost soaker hose has sprung a leak which needs to be patched. The timer running the system needs to be reset to provide more water in our hotter weather. Once the summer rains take hold, we can reduce the watering times again.
Tomas and Kay made huge inroads Saturday in removing weeds and unused, overmature lamb's quarters. Joan E. has worked since on elm-tree-infringement, more weeds, and removing spent crops. Tuesday June 29, Tomas and Joan will begin planting the 20 tomato plants donated by Monica, the veggie queen.
The Saturday, July 3, workday has been canceled due to schedule conflict with Mountainair Firecracker Jubilee. Dennis Fulfer recommended making up flyers that can be handed out at Jubilee and other events. Kay Stillion is considering creating the flyers.
Garden members were encouraged to show up on their chosen days to monitor the garden, pull weeds, and help devise plans for fall crops and next year's garden. A weekly Farmers Market is in the planning stages for next summer. Community gardeners are asked to recommend crops that could be grown in our limited space that would be good sellers at such a Farmer's Market.
Volunteers welcome. Contact Joan Embree, housemaven@comcast.net, or Tomás Wolff, wolff.clayworks@gmail.com. Please use "Community Garden" in the subject line
Some of the vegetables that Kate and her after-school students planted are doing quite well. It seems that the combination of in-ground ollas and above-ground water bottles has helped the timed watering system keep things alive. The easternmost soaker hose has sprung a leak which needs to be patched. The timer running the system needs to be reset to provide more water in our hotter weather. Once the summer rains take hold, we can reduce the watering times again.
Tomas and Kay made huge inroads Saturday in removing weeds and unused, overmature lamb's quarters. Joan E. has worked since on elm-tree-infringement, more weeds, and removing spent crops. Tuesday June 29, Tomas and Joan will begin planting the 20 tomato plants donated by Monica, the veggie queen.
The Saturday, July 3, workday has been canceled due to schedule conflict with Mountainair Firecracker Jubilee. Dennis Fulfer recommended making up flyers that can be handed out at Jubilee and other events. Kay Stillion is considering creating the flyers.
Garden members were encouraged to show up on their chosen days to monitor the garden, pull weeds, and help devise plans for fall crops and next year's garden. A weekly Farmers Market is in the planning stages for next summer. Community gardeners are asked to recommend crops that could be grown in our limited space that would be good sellers at such a Farmer's Market.
Volunteers welcome. Contact Joan Embree, housemaven@comcast.net, or Tomás Wolff, wolff.clayworks@gmail.com. Please use "Community Garden" in the subject line
Saturday, June 26, 2010
#Mountainair Chamber @ SASS
As referenced in an earlier post, the Chamber advertised in the SASS program and booked a booth to promote local businesses and attractions. This is the first outing for the traveling promotional materials, created and assembled by Chamber members, primarily Kristine Lauritsen (Stonehouse Gallery).
The traveling display, complete with photo display, banner, poster, complimentary "Discover Mountainair" seed packets, brochures and promotional items, will visit various area events distributing free materials promoting tourism and local businesses. Books, postcards, t-shirts and other visitor memorabilia will be available sale. Interested in providing materials to have your business, event or organization represented? Contact Chamber President Scott Remmich at B Street Market for details.
Everybody Eats: NM Farmers Markets News
Don't forget tomorrow's #Mountainair community garden planning meeting, 9am at Mojave Rose, refreshments and weeding. Visitors welcome. Joan Embree, Garden Manager, housemaven@comcast.net.
Real Food, news from NM Farmers Markets, below the fold...
Real Food, news from NM Farmers Markets, below the fold...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
8 week Mosaic Workshop starts Thurs June 24
Another #Mountainair mural is underway, part of the public art / mosaic mural project and workshop series sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Arts Council (MMAC). If you missed the first session, there will be 7 more. Next mural round, I'll start nagging sooner and perhaps even more publicly for a flier to post.
click to view larger version to download or print
This mural, destined for the Mountainair Community Library, will, obviously, have a book theme, tentatively "a 'tree of knowledge' with books piled in front and symbols of possible interest." Will there be a serpent? Speculating about the symbols will be fun...now where did I put Northrop Frye and Cirlot (A Dictionary of Symbols)? More Tree of Knowledge book motifs
Salford's Tree of Knowledge ceramic mural, Salford UK
B St Market Mural (in case you too have been wondering what happened to it) is ready to mount whenever the re-stucco work on the market has been completed, hopefully this summer.
Sacred Steps Exhibit, Friday June 25
From: UNM Library via NM History Net
Please join the Institute for Medieval Studies and the University Libraries at Zimmerman Library in welcoming Kate López, a Santa Fe based painter and pilgrim exhibited in Sacred Steps. Ms. López will present "Painting the Pilgrim's Way" in Zimmerman's second floor lobby shortly after the library closes at 6:00 pm on Friday June 25, 2010. A reception will follow. Please be prompt as the library doors will lock at 6:20.
NM Arts & Crafts Fair opens June 25
One of the state's largest juried shows of exclusively New Mexico arts and crafts starts Friday, June 25 in Albuquerque. The 49th annual New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair takes place at Expo New Mexico, on the state fairgrounds located at at Central and San Pedro NE, and runs through Sunday, June 27.
HOURS
Friday June 25th and Saturday June 26th, 10am to 7pm
Sunday June 27th, 10am to 5pm
FAIR ADMISSION
Three Day Adult and Senior Pass: $10
Daily admission: Adults: $5; Free admission to youth 12 and under
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works
Here's something for Mountainair's local gardeners, community garden supporters, grow your own advocates, slow food fans and farmers market dreamers. Article, graphics (for the visualization inclined) and poster are from Yes! Magazine's Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works, companion supplement to Frances Moore Lappé's (author of Diet for a Small Planet) article, "UN Calls for Climate Friendly Diet"
Mountainair Sunflower Festival: Call for Artists & Artisans
On behalf of the MMAC, Deborah Jones issues a Call for Artists and Craftspeople for the annual Sunflower Festival,
What: 2010 Annual Mountainair Sunflower Festival Craft Show
When: August 28, 2010; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: At the Dr. Saul Community Center and around the town of Mountainair, NM, about 75 miles south of Albuquerque on US Hwy 60.
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When: August 28, 2010; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: At the Dr. Saul Community Center and around the town of Mountainair, NM, about 75 miles south of Albuquerque on US Hwy 60.
Application deadline: August 1: download applications online.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Community Garden Update
Saturday meeting and workday at the Community Garden at Mojave Rose. Tomas Wolff, Ass't Garden Manager and iCreate board member, writes on June 18,
Fellow Gardeners:
The peas are coming in beautifully while the spinach has sprung! Carrots and beets seem to be growing moderately well, and drip system is watering well. The weeds are also taking over, and the sunflowers are reaching 6 feet.
I guess because of the drip system, not many folks have been to the garden on a regular basis! The last Saturday morning work session to weed and make further plans was attended by only Kay and me.
Joan Embree is back from the west coast and will hopefully give us some advice. What do you think the next step is?
Tomas
Joan Embre, Garden Manager, writes June 20th,
A quick assesment of the garden has told me that we will not be holding an "open garden" event this month. Maybe we can re-schedule it for the end of the season, if we get some crops growing and spiff the place up.
Before leaving for a couple of weeks in California, I'd like to get us all together at the garden. Early in the morning would be best. How about this Saturday, June 26? It's the day we originally had on the calendar for the open garden. How about 9 a.m.? It's a bit early for some of us, but if we wait too long it's going to be hot.
I'll bring some iced tea and snacks. If everyone will bring his or her own chair, we'll sit under the trees and figure out what to do next. Any of us who can get there early can pull weeds.
Monica has offered us some tomato plants and the Bernalillo County Master Gardeners have some veggie starts up for grabs. We need to discuss whether or not to take these offerings, plant them, and tend them. We MIGHT have quite a bumper tomato crop if all goes well. We would need to set up another timer and soaker system and we would need to keep the weeds down.
Fellow Gardeners:
The peas are coming in beautifully while the spinach has sprung! Carrots and beets seem to be growing moderately well, and drip system is watering well. The weeds are also taking over, and the sunflowers are reaching 6 feet.
I guess because of the drip system, not many folks have been to the garden on a regular basis! The last Saturday morning work session to weed and make further plans was attended by only Kay and me.
Joan Embree is back from the west coast and will hopefully give us some advice. What do you think the next step is?
Tomas
Joan Embre, Garden Manager, writes June 20th,
A quick assesment of the garden has told me that we will not be holding an "open garden" event this month. Maybe we can re-schedule it for the end of the season, if we get some crops growing and spiff the place up.
Before leaving for a couple of weeks in California, I'd like to get us all together at the garden. Early in the morning would be best. How about this Saturday, June 26? It's the day we originally had on the calendar for the open garden. How about 9 a.m.? It's a bit early for some of us, but if we wait too long it's going to be hot.
I'll bring some iced tea and snacks. If everyone will bring his or her own chair, we'll sit under the trees and figure out what to do next. Any of us who can get there early can pull weeds.
Monica has offered us some tomato plants and the Bernalillo County Master Gardeners have some veggie starts up for grabs. We need to discuss whether or not to take these offerings, plant them, and tend them. We MIGHT have quite a bumper tomato crop if all goes well. We would need to set up another timer and soaker system and we would need to keep the weeds down.
notes and reminders
Missed reminding about the Mountainair Town Council meeting but there are other reminders on the docket to get posted before I forget them too. Click reminders, other meetings, upcoming activities (something for everyone as the ad copy spins), other reminders not to forget about ongoing, and so on....
Socorro County commission meeting (map on website), 7 pm, June 22, will continue public discussion of the SunZia power transmission line through Torrance County (Does the Torrance County Commission get to decide Socorro County land use?)... the Mountainair Shelter leads the state again... keep on clicking for it to stay there...
As for the Town Council, those meetings are on a regular schedule (1st and 3rd Mondays) and on the community calendar, you shouldn't need constant reminding. When there's something in particular on the agenda, that's another matter. (Agenda, what agenda?) This time, there's catching up with the business that didn't get done last time for lack of a quorum, something to bear in mind next time you vote for council members.
Socorro County commission meeting (map on website), 7 pm, June 22, will continue public discussion of the SunZia power transmission line through Torrance County (Does the Torrance County Commission get to decide Socorro County land use?)... the Mountainair Shelter leads the state again... keep on clicking for it to stay there...
Firecracker Jubilee will be here before you know it... free 10x10 vendor space in the community park... tickets for Friday Gonzalo concert... call 505-440-9715 for information...
Friday, June 18, 2010
Impact of Home & Community Gardening In America
FYI ~ 2009 report from the National Gardening Association ... and more gardening resources at the National Gardening Association website
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Bloomsday!
Here Comes Everyone! A Happy Bloomsday to all and to all a good read. To celebrate Bloomsday, graphic novelist Robert Barry has published - free, online - Ulysses Seen, a graphic novel version of James Joyce's Ulysses. Full text of the original 1923 version available online and for downlaod at Project Gutenberg and a cheat sheet guide from the BBC
Bloomsday commemorates Leopold Bloom's June 16, 1904, journey around Dublin in Joyce's Ulysses. Virtually (too late to book passage to Dublin): Bloomsday hot spots in Joyce's Dublin, sites from Ulysses in a Dublin Tour, contemporary images from Joyce's day in Aida Yared's Ulysses images, and Jorn Barger's The Internet Ulysses
Statue of James Joyce, Dublin city center, from photos of Dublin by Ian Mackean
Monday, June 14, 2010
Writing Workshop
Normally, Writing Women's Fiction might be a likelier post for Poets and Writers Picnic (aka the plog, short for poetry or PWP), but it fits arts and local interests equally well and just might appeal to readers looking for a summer activity. Besides, I'm more or less caught up on local events and PSAs and don't cross post near enough between the two blogs. If local arts patrons and culture vultures don't realize how much the plog both contributes to Mountainair cultural life and enhances its wider reputation, well , that's my fault, not theirs.
Addressing that gap is a Mid Year Resolution: more literature, literary arts, poetry, creative writing posts on this blog.
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Addressing that gap is a Mid Year Resolution: more literature, literary arts, poetry, creative writing posts on this blog.
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If you're not up for trekking to Albuquerque for six weeks of Mondays but would still like to take a writing workshop, consider the Sunflower Writing Workshop August 26-28 right here in Mountainair.UNM Continuing Education is now offering a class on Writing Women's Fiction. Not only romance, but domestic realism, romantic suspense, mysteries, thrillers, and family sagas as well as historical fiction will be explored in this class designed for women who want to write fiction specifically aimed at women readers.
Participants will learn about plot structure, character development, point of view, voice, believable dialogue, the necessity for conflict and tension, how to create atmosphere with setting, the pacing of scenes and rewriting, and polishing for publication. Sandra Toro, the published author of historical and contemporary novels, as well as short stories and a memoir, will teach this six week class. Her book reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers and her non-fiction has been published in magazines such as Redbook, McCalls, and Environment.
This class will run from 7-9pm on Mondays, starting June 14, 2010 ending August 2, 2010. Classes will be held in the UNM Continuing Education South Building at 1634 University Blvd. NE in Albuquerque, NM. Tuition is $80. For more information contact Dora Delgado-Raby at 505-277-6320 or visit http://dce.unm.edu/personal-enrichment.htm. To register visit http://www.dce.unm.edu or call 505-277-0077.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Coming up
... this weekend in #Mountainair & environs: a free concert (Sunday, see below); KXNM Open House (Sunday, McIntosh); LeRoy Simmons forge art exhibit (ongoing through July) at Cibola Arts; Tijeras Open-Air Arts Market Saturday and Sunday); Duende Poetry Series (Sunday, Placitas). Much to chose from without even having to cross 'burque or (gasp) Fanta Se city limits.
Among other relevant reminders and a FWIW announcement:
More events (mostly 'burque) in Q CLAPS calenday/newsletter... Today is the last day to register your opinions with SunZia and the BLM about transmission line towers in our backyards. I sincerely hope that enough people will take the time to write and request more local hearings on the matter. Did you catch the MountainView Telegraph article on the power line issue? Attribution appreciated...In case you've noticed extra traffic, the New Mexico Fire Fighters is in town and at the MAC for its annual conference this week and weekend, not an event open to the public as I know.... last but not least, don't forget to click the Animal Rescue Site and then vote for the Mountainair Animal Shelter.
FWIW: this blog will hit a major blogmark by the end of this summer: the BIG 1,000 ~ its one thousandth post.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tractor Square Dancing
Murt (square dancer and tractor driver) and I mulled this one over last year and liked the idea but were busy with the Gran Quivira Centennial activities so put it on hold. Maybe it's time to bring it out again before Jubilee. Wouldn't it make a activity as a demo or in the parade? What about a riding mower or 4-wheeler ATV division?
Mechanized square dancing, not making it up: just picture it. In case you can't, check out some videos: Best Ever,Tractor Square Dance [YouTube]
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
KXNM Open House, Sun Jun 13, McIntosh
What is KXNM? It's Torrance's County's new public radio station. Do you remember the radio interviews when the station set up in the Salinas Visitors Center parking lot and broadcast from Mountainair last year during Sunflower?
That along and similar appearances at Corona Days and the Pinto Bean Festival were promotional "test" runs for KXNM, which will be operated as a 501 (3c) Foundation. The station's recording studio is located in the McIntosh Community center, 7 miles north of Estancia, on NM 41 on the east side of the road, next to the Fire Station and Emergency Response units. For questions, directions, or RSVP, call Jo Onarheim: 505-384-2858
That along and similar appearances at Corona Days and the Pinto Bean Festival were promotional "test" runs for KXNM, which will be operated as a 501 (3c) Foundation. The station's recording studio is located in the McIntosh Community center, 7 miles north of Estancia, on NM 41 on the east side of the road, next to the Fire Station and Emergency Response units. For questions, directions, or RSVP, call Jo Onarheim: 505-384-2858
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Arts in NM: Chronicles of the Creative Economy
Creativity Matters, successor to the Arts Alliance newsletter, welcomes subscribers and invites submissions - news, not calendar items but also not limited to Albuquerque proper. So, Mountainair, East Mountain and Central NM arts organizations and organizers... start your wordprocessors.
Regarding Submissions, Creative Matters sez
Please continue to send us your news, tips and suggestions; we really appreciate them, and we thank you in advance. Please do not send Creativity Matters event listings or announcements, because it isn't a calendar. But Creative Albuquerque's website will eventually include a fantastic user-driven calendar tailor-made to spotlight community events. Thank you!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Forge Art opening today at Cibola Arts
Blacksmith to Artist ~ “Forging Fine Art from Steel”
The opening reception for a showing of works by featured artist LeRoy Simmons is today, Saturday, June 5th, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Cibola Arts Gallery, 217 W. Broadway in Mountainair, NM.
Simmons is a longtime New Mexico resident, known for his creative gates, stair railings, fireplace screens, and elaborate bed frames. He has recently begun a series of hooks, drawer pulls, candlesticks, and other decorative steel pieces. His calla lilies, morning glories, and chilies are favorites among his designs.
Simmons joined the Cibola Arts Gallery, which is a cooperative of 14 member artists and another dozen guest artists, in 2009. Members create paintings, clay art, wearable art, jewelry, glass art, gourds, sculpture, and iron work. It is a wonderful grouping of outstanding work on Mountainair’s main street.
“Forging Fine Art from Steel” will run through June and July. Plan to make a day trip to this charming area during this outstanding show. The Gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery phone number is 505-847-0324.
submitted by Diann Doan for Cibola Arts; photos from Hays Travelogue, Tamra Hays
The opening reception for a showing of works by featured artist LeRoy Simmons is today, Saturday, June 5th, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Cibola Arts Gallery, 217 W. Broadway in Mountainair, NM.
Dragon door latch by LeRoy Simmons
Simmons joined the Cibola Arts Gallery, which is a cooperative of 14 member artists and another dozen guest artists, in 2009. Members create paintings, clay art, wearable art, jewelry, glass art, gourds, sculpture, and iron work. It is a wonderful grouping of outstanding work on Mountainair’s main street.
LeRoy Simmons at forge
“Forging Fine Art from Steel” will run through June and July. Plan to make a day trip to this charming area during this outstanding show. The Gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery phone number is 505-847-0324.
submitted by Diann Doan for Cibola Arts; photos from Hays Travelogue, Tamra Hays
Thursday, June 3, 2010
CLAPS Newsletter: ABQ area events
A calendar for reference, and more ~ a place to list and advertise Mountainair events. Event chairs and organizers, are you getting this? FWIW ~ CLAPS = Albuquerque Live Arts & Performance Services.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
East Mountain Fiber Farm and Studio Tour
Cynthia Daly ~ Milagro Moon Ranch, MMAC member and Sunflower Festival supporter ~ writes:
Hi all – We are gearing up for the 7th Annual East Mountain Fiber Farm and Studio Tour, June 5-6, 10am-5pm, and I wanted to let you know that the video made by New Mexico Magazine last year is up and running on their website. See Jim, Carol Grimm and Bev Neville in action as fiber animal owners and spokespersons. 11 stops to visit! Click here for the map
Also check out the great articles about the tour in Explore! (pg 26, MountainView Telegraph travel guide supplement) and in the June 2010 New Mexico Magazine (King of the Road, Leslie King). Just click on the video link in the NM Magazine article to view the video with Megan the alpaca (now sadly deceased).
'Beanhead
Thanks, and come to the tour this weekend if you can.
Cynthia Daly
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Transmission lines in our backyards
How would you like this in your field of vision as you look out the window or sit on your porch? Or view it in the panorama from Gran Quivira's heights when you take company to visit this magnificent historical wonder?
Wondering how this could happen? And without your knowing about it or being invited to public hearings? You can thank the BLM and the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project for that "oversight." Initial plans had the route from the (wind and solar) energy switching station to the east crossing NM lower on its way to energy hungry Phoenix and points further west until White Sands vetoed the route as too close to the buffer (or "oops") zone around the testing range.
Yes, there were hearings - but in Socorro rather than the area actually affected by the routing change. Somebody, BLM or Sun Zia - I couldn't say, appears to have been remiss in making sure we knew about the April 2010 hearings on two alternate routings, one near Deer Canyon and Gran Quivira, the other just north or Mountainair but equally noxious - both within the area bounded to the north by the green line and to the south by the yellow line in the map below.
Comments are still open but only until June 10, 2010. What can you do? Where can you telephone, fax, email, send comments?
- Visit the SunZia Transmission Line Project website for project information relating to the NEPA process
- Sign up for the BLM's mailing list at NMSunZiaProject@blm.gov
- Submit a question regarding the project to BLM staff
- Participate in the draft environmental impact statement formal comment period, scheduled for summer 2010. Contact Adrian Garcia, BLM Project Manager, NMSunZiaProject@blm.gov, 505.954.2199
- Submit the mailable Comment Form
SunZia Southwest Transmission Project
c/o EPG, Inc.
4141 North 32nd Street, Suite 102
Phoenix, AZ 85018
BLM Directory, NM
More Links:
- Scoping Report April 2010
- SunZia Southwest Transmission Project
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. (if you are inclined to trust FERC or any government agency regulating energy businesses, please turn on your news and catch the latest update on the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster)
- SunZia Transmission Line Project: BLM Seeks Additional Public Input on Proposed SunZia Southwest Transmission Project
The short version, transmission lines from the SunZia East Substation (announced and blogged last year) along either route are projected to cross Torrance and Socorro Counties westward until reaching the I-25 corridor, at which point they will turn south and follow the I-25 corridor as shown by the yellow line.
What are you waiting for? Do your homework. Forward this information to your friends and neighbors. Start writing, calling and faxing your comments. Let the BLM and Sun Zia know how you feel. Cc FERC, elected representatives and energy officials while you are at it.
Forest Service Waives Recreation Fees
From the Mountainair Ranger District, for your use and information:
FOREST SERVICE WAIVES RECREATION FEES
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – June 1, 2010 - National forests and grasslands will join other federal agencies in hosting four fee waiver events. All recreation fees at day use sites on the Sandia Ranger District will be waived June 5-6. Fees will also be waived at all campgrounds on the Cibola National Forest and the Black Kettle and McClellan Creek National Grasslands for the night of June 5. There is one exception; campground sites listed on the national Recreation Reservation Service are not included in the fee waiver due to the difficulties of refunding reservation payments.
Fee waiver dates for 2010:
- June 5 & 6, 2010 – Saturday, National Trails Day & Sunday
- August 14 & 15, 2010 – Saturday & Sunday
- September 25, 2010 – Saturday, National Public Lands Day
- November 11, 2010 – Thursday, Veteran's Day
The Cibola National Forests and Grasslands are over 1.9 million acres in size. Elevation ranges from 5,000-11,301 feet and include the Datil, Gallinas, Magdalena, Bear, Manzano, Sandia, San Mateo, Mt. Taylor, and Zuni Mountains. There are four wildernesses contained within Cibola Forest: the Sandia Mountain, Manzano Mountain, Withington, and Apache Kid. The Cibola National Grasslands are located in northeastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and northwestern Texas, and are 263,954 acres in size.
The Cibola National Forest in New Mexico offers a tremendous diversity of landscapes with many recreation opportunities and includes a collection of mountain ranges scattered east and south of Albuquerque and west to the state's border with Arizona, including the Sandia, Manzano, Zuni Mountains and Mount Taylor, and the Magdalena, San Mateo, and Bear Mountains near Socorro.
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