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NEW MEXICOConservation Connections

Year In revIew 2011

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the Nature Conservancy in New Mexico

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Alvino E. Castillo, Silver City, ChairMike Spear, Santa Fe, Vice presidentTrudy O’Toole, Monticello, Interim SecretaryAl Sanborn, Santa Fe, treasurerCraig Allen, PhD, Santa FeTerry Brewer, Santa FeRobert Efroymson, AlbuquerqueCarrie Freeman, CorralesJohn Massopust, Santa FeSusan McGreevy, Santa FeAmy Miller, AlbuquerqueTom Myers, PhD, HillsboroEduardo A. Rodriguez, El paso

STAFF

Steven Bassett, Conservation Information Manager Anne Bradley, Fire Conservation ManagerMartha Cooper, Southwest New Mexico Field RepresentativeRobert Findling, Director of land protection and StewardshipDave Gori, Director of ScienceJackie Hall, Director of philanthropyRobert Martin, Northeast New Mexico Grasslands project CoordinatorLaura McCarthy, Director of Agency and Government RelationsPatrick McCarthy, Director of Conservation programsTish McDaniel, Shortgrass prairie program DirectorLara Miller, Director of Conservation OperationsRoxanna Miller, Director of FinancePriscilla Ornelas, Director of OperationsKarla Sartor, Conservation EcologistTerry Sullivan, State Director

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But, as you will see in the following pages, our recent global connections have motivated New Mexico staff to develop a new interpretation: “Act Globally, Act Locally!”

As we enter 2012, we also move into a new era of conservation. The fundamentals of our approach remain intact; we use the best available science to develop conservation solutions for the most important places. However, we also face daunting local and global challenges: water shortages, massive wildfires, and widespread mineral and energy development. It is painfully apparent we must use our limited resources more efficiently and mobilize the collective expertise of our highly skilled staff to solve both local and global conservation issues. Achieving this global synergy requires collaboration and cooperation with colleagues around the planet, so that we may rapidly share and implement new innovations, tools and technologies.

In this report, you will read stories of how this new conservation approach is having a huge impact here and around the world. The lessons Laura McCarthy,

senior policy advisor for fire and forest restoration, and I learned while in Quito, Ecuador led to the creation of the Santa Fe water fund. The expertise developed by our conservation program director Patrick McCarthy while working on Africa’s Zambezi River is now being applied to our new San Juan River conservation program. Patrick also recently traveled to Bejing, China to share our climate change adaptation approach with government leaders. And techniques developed by our conservation staff at Chile’s Valdivian Coast Reserve are shaping how we think about forest conservation in the Jemez mountains.

I hope that you enjoy these stories of how we are harnessing the best conservation ideas from around the world to apply in our backyard. Our success is due entirely to the support of committed members like you!

Best regards,

Terry Sullivan New Mexico State Director

Dear Friend,

“Think Globally, Act Locally” has been an inspiring mantra for the conservation movement over the past 30 years.

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At the epicenter of this unsettling new normal in New Mexico sit the Jemez Mountains, where it grew warmer in the 20th century

faster than any other place in the state.

For Conservancy scientists, the focus now isn’t whether or not things are changing, but rather what actions we can take to help plant, animal and human communities adapt.

Patrick McCarthy directs the Conservancy’s Southwest Climate Change Initiative (SWCCI), an effort that’s tackling ways to help four Southwest landscapes, including the Jemez, cope with climate change. “We’re trying to make climate change adaptation a reality, not just something we talk about, and make our natural systems resilient,” he says.

In the Jemez Mountains, scientists have front row seats to climate change—and a unique opportunity to test and refine adaptation strategies. As a living laboratory, the Jemez is ripe for discovery of climate change impacts. Weather stations measure snowfall, aquatic instruments detect water temperature and tree ring analyses look back across the centuries to find out how forests responded to natural cycles of drought and disturbance.

The SWCCI team is hard at work compiling and interpreting this research, transforming it into an

accessible source of information for the natural resource management community. The initiative’s workshops have brought scientists, land managers and other stakeholders together to discuss findings and lay out action plans. They’ve also published a number of reports detailing observed changes, projections and adaptive strategies, including the only study that documents actual and projected climate change impacts across the entire Southwest region.

Several on-the-ground projects are now underway based on these findings, including forest and stream work that safeguards habitat for the Jemez Mountains salamander, Rio Grande cutthroat trout and other species.

The Conservancy’s progress coordinating strategic actions in a region hit hard by climate change hasn’t gone unnoticed. Still, McCarthy was surprised when his phone rang this year with an invitation to present the SWCCI approach at the second International Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change in Bejing, China.

The Conservancy’s China program adapted the SWCCI approach to conduct a nationwide climate change assessment. Now, they are developing nature-based adaptation strategies for areas most severely affected.

“What I was so impressed by in China was that high- level government officials were there ready to go. They see climate change happening. There’s little debate about it, and they know they need to take action.”

Back in the Jemez, we now know enough about climate change impacts to take steps today that will sustain our most important natural areas 30, 50, even 100 years down the road.

“Everyone knows we need to plan ahead, but not very many people know how,” says McCarthy. “It’s a new challenge, a new science. But we can’t keep climate change at arm’s length anymore. We have to prepare.”

Thanks to the Conservancy’s SWCCI, we’re not waiting around to see what happens next in the Southwest. After all, the future facing this region’s natural systems is ultimately our future, too.

Southwest Climate Change InitiativeCONSERVANCy SCIENtIStS tAkE ACtION FOR tHE FutuRE

Hotter, more severe fires, less snow and more intense flooding, large-scale forest diebacks. Is this what New Mexico’s future looks like? Climate models say so, but after this summer’s massive Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos—the largest in New Mexico’s history—a hotter, drier, more unpredictable future feels like it’s already here.

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THiS PAGE Jemez Mountains © Shutterstock

OPPOSiTE PAGE Regularly monitoring stream and fish community health is one practical climate adaptation strategy. © Bob Parmenter

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Collaborative Forest RestorationGOOD NEWS FOR tHE WAtER yOu DRINk

Look no further than your own kitchen faucet to realize how important New Mexico’s forests are to each of us. They are nature’s hidden water reservoirs, soaking up snow and rain and slowly distributing it to our rivers and, eventually, the water we drink. But New Mexico’s forests need help.

Our forests are not well adapted to large and severe fires, like the Las Conchas blaze of 2011, whose size and ferocity were

unprecedented in New Mexico’s history. Las Conchas killed millions of trees and resulted in intense flash floods and deep erosion across the Jemez Mountains. Scientists say these mega-fires will likely become more common in our changing climate.

The good news: forest restoration. Projects that thin small trees and reduce dangerous fuel build-up bring our forests back to health, safeguard important streams and keep our drinking water clean and our communities safe from catastrophic fires. Forest projects even create jobs and economic opportunities through planned timber harvesting.

It sounds too good to be true, but the Conservancy is helping make restoration a reality across a 210,000-acre landscape in north-central New Mexico.

Working in the Santa Fe National Forest, the Valles Caldera National Preserve and the Jemez Pueblo in the heart of the Jemez Mountains, the Conservancy has helped fund and implement a massive undertaking through the Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. This federal effort encourages collaborative, science-based restoration in priority forests.

On-the-ground projects include forest thinning, prescribed fire treatments, planting willows to maintain stream health, and a robust monitoring program that integrates climate data into management decisions. In 2010 alone, the effort treated 733 acres to reduce fire threats for nearby communities, restored 12 miles of stream and created new jobs for the area’s economy.

“The Conservancy brings an outside, unbiased approach to solving environmental problems, and can provide an excellent conduit for linking various groups together to tackle complex, and sometimes controversial, problems,” says Bob Parmenter, director of science and education at Valles Caldera National Preserve, a critical partner in the Jemez forest restoration project.

More than anything, the Conservancy’s involvement has fostered a sense of urgency about taking purposeful action across a large forest landscape, not just in piecemeal chunks that have less impact.

When our forests heal, the natural role they play in our lives will be restored, too. The water stored in forests will continue to recharge our rivers, provide habitat for native fish and wildlife, and, eventually, flow from the taps in our homes.

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this page Valle Grande © David Solis

top right John Massopust in Patagonia © courtesy John Massopust

opposite page Trainee Gabriel Rodriguez Correa stands ready at the fire line to extinguish spotover fires during a prescribed burn. © Mary Huffman/TNC

Global Challenges, Global Solutions: Travels to Chile and Back

When John Massopust first visited Chile, he was struck by a sobering thought: “This amazing place is disappearing from the Earth.” A trustee for the New Mexico chapter, Massopust now splits his time—and his support—between Patagonia and Santa Fe.

“We can learn important lessons from the conservation work being done in Chile,” says New Mexico State Director Terry Sullivan, who spent two weeks this past year visiting projects in South America.

One striking similarity, says Sullivan, is the importance of forests to both places, and the urgent need to help them before it’s too late. On the Conservancy’s 146,500-acre Valdivian Coast Reserve in Chile, for instance, giant trees related to North American sequoias live for up to 3,500 years. But several years ago, a timber company that previously owned the property cleared 13,000 acres of this forest.

Now the Conservancy has embarked on a massive reforestation project, planting 4,500 acres with native trees using saplings the local community plants in the reserve’s nursery.

Making connections between the two countries, Sullivan says he returned from his visit inspired to replicate some of the cutting-edge forest management work the Conservancy’s Chile program is undertaking.

The connection to people is one of the reasons Massopust donates to the Conservancy’s work in Chile and New Mexico. “Both places face tremendous pressures,” he says.

“But one of the things that intrigues me about the Conservancy is they’re helping people understand the value of our natural resources. It’s not about protecting nature from people but for people.”

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THiS PAGE San Juan River © Jackie Hall

OPPOSiTE PAGE TOP Victoria Falls at its lowest volume, at the onset of the rainy season. © Brian Richter/TNC BOTTOM African elephant along the banks of the Zambezi River © Brian Richter/TNC

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San Juan River ProjectlESSONS lEARNED A WORlD AWAy

Africa and New Mexico are a world apart, with little, if anything, in common. Unless, that is, you’re standing on the banks of a river.

The Zambezi and the San Juan rivers are far less different than you would think,” says Patrick McCarthy, who would know.

McCarthy helped launch the Conservancy’s Zambezi River Basin Project in 2006 and now serves as director of conservation programs—including the San Juan River Project—for the New Mexico chapter.

“Both the San Juan and the Zambezi support communities that are highly dependent on rivers,” McCarthy says. “There are critical sustainability issues in both systems that need to be addressed. As major rivers in semi-arid parts of the world, both are particularly threatened by climate change.”

Lessons McCarthy learned in Africa still serve him well. “The Zambezi flows through eight different African nations. That’s a lot of people with different concerns for the river,” he says. “The San Juan flows across several state and tribal boundaries. We just completed the Conservation Action Plan (CAP) for the San Juan and vetted it with partners, marking the first time that key stakeholders had been convened from across the basin to share a vision and help design collaborative strategies for the river.”

That CAP identified 10 key objectives, several of which the Conservancy subsequently adopted. Paramount among those was restoring fish habitat and riparian ecosystems along the river’s main stem, work that began in October in partnership with the Navajo Nation and local crews.

“But restoration is just one piece of a multifaceted conservation program,” says McCarthy. “You can’t restore the fish without restoring the river, so we’re active in discussions about restoring natural flows in the San Juan River with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We’re also deeply engaged in supporting the federal government’s San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program, which contributes $2.4 million annually to river conservation projects.”

McCarthy hopes the recent progress will help generate more support for the project, which in turn would fund additional strategies identified in the CAP. According to McCarthy, it’s important—and urgent—work.

“Whether we’re talking about Africa, New Mexico or so many other places, we’ve got to figure out how to conserve the benefits nature provides to people in a rapidly developing world.”

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| Our restoration work on the San Juan River is helping bring back some underwater behemoths.

Read more at nature.org/newmexico2011. |

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INVEStING IN FORESt HEAltH NOW FOR ClEAN WAtER lAtER

“Water is life. If we lose that, we’re stuck. If we’re gonna pay, we should pay something to keep our water clear.”

Fired Up about the Santa Fe Watershed

The comment above is one of many heard earlier this year during focus groups on one of the Conservancy’s most

innovative projects: the Santa Fe Water Fund. This financial tool is designed to get people involved in protecting their water sources through forest restoration efforts like removing small trees and using controlled burns to safely remove overgrown brush. Laura McCarthy, a forester and director of agency relations for the New Mexico chapter, leads this successful project and is thrilled to hear the positive feedback. “Our community members instinctively grasped the need to protect our watershed and, in spite of our down economy, they are willing to pay for it.”

In fact, the poll reveals 82 percent of people surveyed are willing to pay 65 cents a month to support the water fund. This is especially good news because a grant is covering the costs will end in 2013, and municipal water users will then pay into the fund.

“It’s really about people and partnerships,” adds McCarthy. “We know Congress cannot appropriate enough money to do the work at the scale we need, so having the public on board is critical.”

Tens of thousands of people rely on the two reservoirs that surround the Santa Fe National Forest. Funds generated by water users will thin

the forest, bringing it to a more natural state. When the forest is healthier, fire burns close to the ground and prevents catastrophic mega-fires like the one that burned near Los Alamos earlier this year.

The polling indicates people have learned about the importance of protecting watersheds after the Cerro Grande Fire nearly a decade ago. It was the most devastating fire in state history, charring 48,000 acres and decimating the water delivery infrastructure in Los Alamos. And the replacement and rehabilitation cost? A staggering $17 million dollars.

Boots-on-the-Ground Investing in forest health now is safer and cheaper than emergency response to future mega-fires. Proactively thinning is “an ounce of prevention” for mega-fires. We’re partnering with others in the Santa Fe National Forest to make that happen by removing invasive trees, thinning parts of the Aztec Spring Drainage and restoring ponderosa pine at lower elevations.

InspirationThe Santa Fe Water Fund has roots halfway around the world. “The idea was planted in my mind by a colleague several years ago,” remarks McCarthy.

“Then, our counterparts in Quito, Ecuador, launched a water fund and that really sparked my determination. I researched Quito’s strategy and adapted it to our needs.” The Quito Water Fund

brought the Conservancy together with local governments to ensure 1.5 million people have access to safe water. McCarthy adopted a similar approach and convened Santa Fe leaders to shape the water fund into what it is today. Not only is the fund receiving high marks from Santa Feans, but the strategy is generating interest from cities across the country.

ABOvE Thick Ponderosa pine bark resists all but the most intense fires. © Alan Eckert Photography

OPPOSiTE PAGE Protection of water sources through forest restoration efforts ensures clean drinking water for local communities. © iStockphoto.com

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| Watch a video about how we are using

fire to protect water in the Santa Fe

Watershed at nature.org/newmexico2011. |

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tHANk yOu FOR yOuR SuppORtThe Nature Conservancy’s accomplishments are made possible by the many individuals, organizations, businesses and foundations that made gifts to our vital conservation programs during fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011). Every gift, regardless of size, plays a crucial role in our work—for people and nature. We thank you for your commitment to our mission.

Ms. Linda McDowellMr. & Mrs. Matthew McKinleyPaul MillerMr. & Mrs. Randy MilliganMs. Marcia MiolanoKylene MolleyRoy R. Morgan and

Elizabeth MorganMs. Letitia MorrisMs. Ann E. MorrisonMs. Patricia R. MosesMs. Kate NanlohyDr. & Mrs. Alden OlsonMr. & Mrs. Gary OverturfMs. Ann PalmerMs. Mary PapenfussJohanna C. PettreyMr. John M. PickeringMrs. Virginia Printz-FeddersenMr. & Mrs. Robert ReedyMr. Richard C. ReichmanMs. Melissa K. Richmond and

Mr. William B. WattersonRobert L. & Marilyn H. RidgleyDavid RigsbyDonald RobertsJohn RobertsMr. & Mrs. Steve RobinsonMr. & Mrs. Eduardo RodriguezCynthia RogeroMr. & Mrs. John RowleyMr. Daniel E. RyersonMrs. Hermine SchoustraMr. John R. Seeger and

Ms. Lise SpargoMr. James R. Seitz Jr.Dietmar SerbesoffMs. Jody ShepardMr. & Mrs. Frederick SimonMary-Lou SimpsonMr. & Mrs. Michael SjulinMr. Michael B. SmithMs. SmithMr. & Mrs. Paul SmithMr. Dale SpallMr. & Mrs. Michael SpearMr. & Mrs. Robert StammMr. & Mrs. Walter SternMr. & Mrs. Ralph StoneMarion F. SubjenskiSulica FundMr. John Sullivan and Ms. Mohini

W. Rawool-SullivanMrs. Gertrude C. SwierMr. Joe TakacsLaura and Robert TaylorMr. & Mrs. Philip ThacherMr. Charles T. Thorn and

Ms. Andrea J. KronDrew TurnerUnited Way of Central New MexicoMrs. Jan VillescasMr. Peter A. WatterbergMs. Julia WaughWells Fargo Advisors, LLCChristine L. WellsKappy Wells and the Caprock

Fund of the Tides FoundationMr. & Mrs. Andrew WhiteMs. Kathleen K. WiegnerMs. Melissa R. Wilson and

Mr. Lewis A. SuberStephen P. Winterstein and

Sheila WintersteinJan M. Wiste, M.D.Ms. Karen WohlgemuthMs. Pamela G. YellenMr. & Mrs. Joe ZebrowskiMrs. Kernie Zimmerman

$500-$999Ms. Barbara AlbinMichelle S. AldridgeMr. Tim W. Allison-HatchThe American Endowment

FoundationMr. & Mrs. John AmesClark Anderson and Anne

AndersonMr. & Mrs. Bob AndersonMr. Alexander AragonMr. Horst AshelmMr. William AubyMr. John AveryMs. Catherine AvesMs. Mary Ann BennettMs. Jody BensonMr. Neal S. BerozMr. Chris BeyerJo N. BintzDr. Eva BirnbaumMr. & Mrs. Fred BlackMs. Barbara BlindJean J. Bordenave

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lAStING FOOtpRINtSDonor Profile: Terry BrewerGrowing up, Terry Brewer took family trips to New Mexico and other parts of the southwest. Now, he travels frequently from his home in Santa Fe across the globe to Africa, a place he calls “an ancient land.”

Africa is home to some of the most stunning places and wildlife left on Earth. But threats like population growth are altering this landscape. The Conservancy works with local partners to harness skills that complement our strengths. One such group is the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) in Kenya, an organization focusing on broad landscapes that support large mammal migrations and rare species.

Terry has come to know NRT well. He has accompanied founder Ian Craig on numerous trips to Kenya, where he has been inspired to support the protection of elephant migration corridors and clean water efforts for local villagers.

“Change won’t happen unless you do something. Knowing my money will have a positive impact—for the animals and also for the people who are part of the conservation equation—is a good feeling,” says Terry.

Recently, Terry donated to the Conservancy’s Hirola project—a partnership effort with NRT to save one of Africa’s most unique and rapidly declining species. Fewer than 500 hirola are left in the world; the majority live in northeast Kenya on the Somali border. They are the last remaining part of an evolutionary lineage that originated over 3 million years ago. Thanks to a 1:1 matching fund, Terry’s gift will go twice as far to protect these amazing creatures.

“If you lose it, it’s gone forever,” says Terry. “But I feel I can have an impact and perhaps leave a footprint for others to follow.”

Mr. Wayne BowerMs. Adele BreechMs. Cheryl L. BrooksHarold & Norma Brown

Environmental FundMr. Norman BrownErnest BryantMrs. Caroline BurnettMr. Charles CaldwellMs. Mary S. CampbellMs. Joyce Ann CardenMr. & Mrs. Richard CarruthersM. M. CharsleyMr. Nathaniel CobbMs. Julia B. CocksMs. Sharon B. CokerMs. Georgia L. CooperMs. Deane Critchley BerlinMs. Hope CurtisMr. & Mrs. John DardenMr. & Mrs. Ronald DetryEstate of Virginia E. DixonDr. Randy S. EllisLiz England-KennedyMr. Jerry EvansMr. Michael FitzsimonsMs. Denise FlignerMs. Christy Ford and

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Ms. Julieta JacobMs. Jill HeineMr. William M. HeitzConnie and James HickmanWayne HillMs. Eileen Grevey HillsonMs. Marjorie S. Holmes

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MacArthur FoundationDr. Else M. MansMarita MarshallEloise MartinMs. Molly MaxtonMs. Kathrine J. McMillenShirley MeeMs. Linda MeinckeMr. Brian K. MessickMr. Dann MeyerMr. Norman H. MeyerMs. Amy MillerChris MillerMr. & Mrs. Ralph MilnesMs. Charlotte B. MinterGerald MirabalMr. & Mrs. Allan MoorheadMs. Paula A. MortensenMs. Leigh W. MurrayMr. & Mrs. Albert NarathMs. Julie NicolettiMr. & Mrs. David NorthropMr. Peter OesperMr. Jerald V. ParkerDr. & Mrs. Thomas ParryMrs. Betty L. PerkinsJoan and Tom PhelpsMs. Cynthia PhillipsMs. Julia M. PhillipsPNM Foundation, Inc.Mr. Theodore N. Pockman and

Ms. Mary B. PockmanMr. Robert Joe PrickettDr. Tony Quay

Mr. Gary M. RasmussenReynolds American FoundationLouise & Michael RoachMs. Judith RoderickSanta Fe Community FoundationMr. William ScanlanMr. James J. SchwarzMr. James C. ScottSeahollow Family Fund of the Santa

Fe Community FoundationMr. Graham SharmanMs. Patty L. SheehanMs. Helen ShurbanMr. Peter C. SimonsThe Smidinger TrustMs. M. C. SmithMs. Patricia C. SteinJean StephensMr. Richard StoneFrancis StoutMr. & Mrs. James StreitMs. Margaret Suzukida and Mr.

Richard RadickMr. Greg SwiftMs. Irene K. Taylor and Ms. G. P.

ThomasMs. Nara ThacherMr. Ken N. TinklepaughMs. Arlene J. TugelMr. Jake Turin and Ms. Susan MackScott E. Turner and the Turner Law

Firm LLCMs. Lynne UhringUnited Way of Central New MexicoUnited Way of Northern New MexicoMs. Dona J. UpsonMr. & Mrs. Richard Van DongenMr. James R. VoetGeraldine WalkerTrudy Wallace and Craig WallaceMr. Craig E. WatsonMr. & Mrs. Ron WilkinsMary Louise and Michael D. WilliamsMr. Edwin Wilmot and Mrs. Anne

Marie WilmotMr. Matthew F. Wilson and Ms.

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TOP Terry Brewer © Courtesy of Mr. Brewer, inSET Hirola, one of Africa’s most unique and rapidly declining species. © Kenneth K. Coe

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Mr. Eric AlbrechtMr. & Mrs. Robert AlexanderMr. & Mrs. John AmesMs. Alice L. AndersonMary E. Correnti & Delores F.

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Mrs. Mary C. AyersMs. Nancy A. BakerMs. Jean H. BallaghMr. & Mrs. Richard BandoPeter T. BarbatsulyMr. & Mrs. Andrew BeckenbachMr. & Mrs. Harry BeckhoffMs. Debra BeesonMs. Starr BelskyMr. William D. BentonMr. & Mrs. Mike BoringMs. Carolyn BradleyMs. Shirley J. BrainardMr. & Mrs. John BrandtMs. Berkeley BrestalJudy BreyW. H. Brown, Jr. and

Nancy T. BrownMr. & Mrs. David BrunerMrs. Isabel B. BucherMr. & Mrs. L. BurkeMs. Cherry L. BurnsMr. & Mrs. Jim BurrTimothy A. Bush

Ms. Juliet CalabiGwen CameronMs. Cary P. CarlsonMr. & Mrs. Donald CarnicomMs. Leslie CarpenterDr. Marilyn ChimesMs. Marcia F. Christmann and

Ms. Catherine ChristmannShannon CimarronMrs. Jessie Clark SpeedMr. David J. ClearyMr. & Mrs. David ClintonMr. Kenneth Alan CollinsMr. Stockton B. ColtMr. Warren Cox and

Mrs. Susan C. Forster-CoxMr. & Mrs. Robert CrooksMr. Guy E. DahmsMr. George R. DalphinMs. Nancy DanielMr. & Mrs. Wayne DarnellMr. James N. DavidsonMs. Vera M. DavisOmar L. DeWitt, Jr. &

Susanne T. DeWittMr. Joseph H. DeareMr. Irving M. Dietz IIIMrs. Doris B. DonkMr. Allan L. Drucker and

Ms. Kayce R. LeopoldMr. & Mrs. Jerry DusseauMr. Maury EarlDr. & Mrs. Charles EberleMr. James EdwardsMr. Robert A. EfroymsonMs. Suzanne EisemanMrs. Helene Emery Jane EngelMs. Jeanne ErbacherMrs. Barbara R. Farber and

Mr. Gerald Farber

Mr. Donald FennemaMs. Ingrid V. FergusonMr. Norman FergusonMs. Anita FeukerMs. Viola FisherMs. Glenda FletcherMs. Christy Ford and

Mr. Michael Q. BilyMr. & Mrs. Steve FosterMs. Beth Francis and

Mr. David O. WileyBrenda FranksMs. Martha A. FreemanMr. Bill Freimuth and

Ms. Ann FreimuthMrs. Dianne Frost and

Mr. Robert SilverMr. Michael A. GardnerMr. & Mrs. William GardnerMs. Lois GearyMr. Melvyn M. Gelb and

Mrs. Mary Ann FinnMr. Raymond S. GeorgeMs. Susan GerberDr. & Mrs. Frank GerstleMr. & Mrs. David GilmerRuth and Marv GlazeMs. Judith GordonMr. Dave Gori and Mr. Scott WilsonMs. Susan GormanDr. Beverly R. GradyPatches GrahamMs. Suzanne L. GrahamMr. W. B. GrantChampe GreenMr. Rand L. GreenfieldMr. Eric W. GreisenMr. & Mrs. Carl GutmanMs. Susan M. HallMr. John HansenMr. & Mrs. William Hardy

Mrs. Katherine H. HarperMr. Michael HartMr. William R. HaushalterMs. Katherine B. HauthMr. Walton HawkMs. Claire L. HayeMr. Gerard Heck, Jr.Mr. DeWitt J. HendersonMs. Judith HendersonMs. Pamela A. HenlineKim and Carl HenneyRichard HenryMrs. Elinore HerrimanJohn HollenbackMr. & Mrs. Michael HolmbergMs. Susan HorstMarie and Clark HudsonMr. & Mrs. Robert HullMs. Joan M. HurleyMrs. Jean S. IngoldMrs. Frances E. Jacobs and

Mr. Kent JacobsDr. & Mrs. Calvin JaegerMs. Toya JamesMrs. Mary Esther E. JollyMr. Daniel P. JonesMr. Douglas M. JonesMr. Robert KasalMr. Glen KayeS. Crockett KeithleyMr. Steven KellsMr. Gil KieferMr. & Mrs. William KilcupMrs. Rowena KingMr. & Mrs. Basil KorinMr. Darryl KowolaDr. Rebecca A. KraimerMs. Jennifer C. KrugerMr. & Mrs. Frank KuehnMichael LawrenceDr. & Mrs. A. Leckman

Mr. & Mrs. Frank LeechMrs. Susan LentzSusan and Scott LevitonMr. & Mrs. Donald LiskaMs. Lee LockieMr. William A. LoebMs. Donna M. LombardiMarjorie & Dwayne LongenbaughMrs. Katherine LooMr. Brian LookerMr. Louis Lopilato IIMr. Dayton LummisMrs. Margaret J. MaddenMs. Jennifer MammoliMr. & Mrs. Ron MandelbaumMr. John A. MangimeliMs. Barbara Mann and

Ms. Wendy McGuireDr. Else M. MansMrs. Edith L. MarianesMr. and Mrs. Bernard MarksMarita MarshallMason Oasis FundHelen MatelsonMs. Sara MathewsMr. Anthony Mattson and

Ms. Patricia HaberMr. & Mrs. Edward McCulloughMr. Harry McGavran and

Mrs. Lauren McGavranMs. Susan McGreevyMr. & Mrs. Joseph McVeighMr. Rayo MccolloughMr. & Mrs. James McpheeMr. and Mrs. James C. MeemDr. Patricia MehlhopCatharina M. MehlmanDr. Maureen MerrittMr. Steve MilazzoMs. Elizabeth MilfordDr. Darlis A. MillerMrs. Julius MillerMr. & Mrs. Charles MossburgSayan D. MukherjeeMr. Keith F. Mulrooney &

Ms. Cathy MitchellMrs. Barbara MurdochMs. Mary Frances MurrayMr. & Mrs. Thomas W. MyersMs. Gillian NielsenMs. Sue Nissen

Mr. & Mrs. Jan NovakFrank Oatman & Jon WoodMr. Jerry R. OldenettelMr. & Mrs. Paul OrzechMr. & Mrs. Gary OverturfMs. Lisa PattersonMr. David W. PattonMs. Deborah Peacock and

Mr. Nathan Z. KornMrs. Donna Pedace and

Mr. Bill PedaceMs. Jerrie PedersenMs. Eleanor L. PetrieMs. Joni K. PierceMs. Mitlene L. PollardMr. Robert Joe PrickettMr. & Mrs. Tom PrisciantelliRoberta and Fred RamseyMs. Mary ReedMr. Daniel RichmondMr. Michael Riley and

Ms. Diane RileyMs. Rhoda B. RileyMs. Joyce A. RobertsMr. & Mrs. James RogersMr. & Mrs. James RoghairStephen C. RoseDr. Paul I. RubinfeldMs. Dorothy RussellMr. & Mrs. Thomas RussellChristopher M. RustayMs. Deborah D. SaffordAl and Mary Anne SanbornMs. Karen SchmidtMrs. Hermine SchoustraDr. & Mrs. Samuel SchumanMr. & Mrs. Robert ScothornMs. Judith SedlowMs. Patty L. SheehanMs. Susan ShipleyMichael & Thea SkyerAnn SmithMs. Susan SmithMs. Vera E. SnyderSusan SophiaMs. Susan R. SteelMr. & Mrs. Hugo SteensmaMs. Patricia C. SteinMr. & Mrs. Ralph StoneDr. Sidney N. StoneMs. Adele Strasser

lEGACy CluBThe Legacy Club is a group of supporters who have made a life-income gift to the Conservancy or named the Conservancy as a beneficiary in their estate plans. We thank our Legacy Club members for their dedication to the Conservancy’s mission.

For more information about the Legacy Club, contact: Jackie Hall at (505) 988-3867 or email jacquelyn_hall@tnc.org.

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EMpOWERING GlOBAl CONSERVAtIONDonor Profile: Susan McGreevy

For trustee emeritus Susan McGreevy, giving to The Nature Conservancy is a

“selfish” act. Why? “It makes me feel so good. Seeing the Conservancy’s accomplishments and knowing that I’ve had some hand in that is really exciting,” Susan explains.

A long-time resident of Santa Fe, Susan has been a nature lover ever since childhood. She remembers summers in the north woods of Wisconsin, where her Aunt Micky would serve as an adventure guide to the outdoors. Over the decades, Susan has traveled around the globe—from the big-game-filled Zambezi River Valley to the penguin’s paradise of Antarctica.

This global perspective has become part of Susan’s philanthropic giving as well. She supports the Conservancy’s work in both Africa and Mexico. She is also the namesake for the Susan McGreevy International Fellowship Program, a program that gives New Mexico staffers an opportunity to lend their skills to projects outside the United States.

“The first fellow, conservation director Patrick McCarthy, worked on the Zambezi River—one of my favorite places.” Susan says. “Now, he’s taking the freshwater lessons he learned over there and putting them to good use here in New Mexico.”

Susan feels this practical, science-based approach is one of the Conservancy’s strengths. Perhaps most compelling to her are the tangible results of our work. “Seeing nature spring back to life is the real sizzle for me,” says Susan.

Ms. Cathie SullivanMr. and Mrs. Wllliam G. TallmanMs. Irene K. Taylor and

Ms. G. P. ThomasPeggy Lee TaylorEugene & Sheri TepperMrs. Inga ThompsonMs. Betty J. Tichich and

Mr. Fred C. BunchJackie TobiasMs. Janet D. TrauthMr. Sam TumaMs. Margaret H. Van DammMs. Gail A. ViolaMs. Irene Von HorvathMs. Jessie D. VostiMrs. Mary WahlMrs. Judith S. WaiteMr. Lyndon WatsonMr. & Mrs. Bruce WeberMr. Thomas N. WeideChristine L. WellsJane WellsMr. Christian W. WestphalMr. & Mrs. Terrell WhiteMr. Brent S. WilleMs. Marjorie J. WilliamsMr. Kent B. WilliamsonMr. Matthew F. Wilson and Ms.

Lyle York WilsonMr. Robert L. WilsonVicky Wilson and Linda WilsonMr. Doyle R. WiseMs. Linda S. WolcottMr. Robert B. Woodville and

Mrs. Martina T. WoodvilleMs. Pamela G. YellenMr. & Mrs. Stacey YoudinDr. Robert G. Zahary and

Dr. Margaret J. HartmanMrs. Agnes Zrakovi and

Mr. Clark ZrakoviMr. & Mrs. Henk Van Der Werff

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TOP RiGHT Susan McGreevy © Alan Eckert Photography

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After the FireHELP SUPPORT OUR MILNESAND PRAIR IE PRESERVE

Across the Southwest this year, mega-fires had a drastic impact on people’s homes, lives and livelihoods. In New Mexico, several fires affected people and nature, including at our own 28,000-acre Milnesand Prairie Preserve, the center of the state’s prairie chicken population.

Unfortunately, the preserve was in the path of a fast-moving wildfire that destroyed miles of fence line critical to prairie chicken breeding grounds because it keeps neighboring cattle from trespassing on the property.

We are now working to rebuild this fencing and make the landscape even better than it was before. And we need your help. The Conservancy is raising $50,000 to build wildlife friendly fencing with features that will prevent birds from colliding with the fence and allow pronghorns to move effortlessly underneath.

If you’re looking to make a difference, please visit support.nature.org/goto/milnesand today and support our conservation work on the Milnesand Prairie Preserve.

Prairie chicken © Jackie Hall/TNC

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