Riparian Zone Reforestation Project

In Partnership with the Volunteer Task Force

Working with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Pajarito Plateau Watershed Partnership and the Volunteer Task Force have received 737 trees to plant within the riparian (streamside) zones of in burned watersheds. These were not seedlings, but small trees. Species included:

  • box elder
  • Bebb willow
  • narrow-leaf cottonwood
  • water birch
  • wax currant
  • wood rose

The project was completed by 30 volunteers who built six post vanes and planted 237 trees in April 2003!

Kevin Buckley and Mark Schmidt build a post vane in North Pueblo Canyon during the April 12 work party.
Boy Scouts from Troop 326 planting cottonwoods in a snowstorm.
In the winter of 2002-2003, PPWP developed a stream restoration project for the North Pueblo Canyon between 48th Street and the Santa Fe National Forest boundary. The goal of the project was to establish a more natural meander pattern in Reaches 2 and 4. This will create point bars where willows and cottonwoods are growing.

 
Contact PPWP at info@ppwatershed.org or
the Volunteer Task Force at info@volunteertaskforce.org

or call Craig Martin at 662.1612