Santa Fe Watershed Association

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 26, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$441,416

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Outreach and Education - Through annual events, activities, and classroom programs, SFWA helps our community become more aware of how the river interacts with the physical watershed (the land), the social watershed (all of us), and the biological watershed (animals and plants). In 2012, just over 1,000 public school 4th, 5th & 6th graders participated in the My Water, My Watershed program designed by our education staff. This seven hour program provides experiential, science-based curriculum that enables students to explore their watershed, learning about the complex relationships between living things and their environment. Students are taken into the Upper Watershed to see Nichols reservoir, study Macroinvertebrates in the river, learn the characteristics of a healthy forest, and visit an abandoned beaver lodge. Middle school students collect water samples twice a year to compare data with the water quality further downstream. We also held our first summer programs, working with the City of Santa Fe summer youth programs. The day long field trips mirrored our curriculum taught during the school year. For many kids, this is the longest theyve been away from electronics and the first time theyve seen such a large body of water. Its also, often, the first time theyve been in a river.

Activity 3

Adopt-the-River Program - 2012 Marks the Tenth Anniversary of Adopt-the-River. The "Adopt" program invites businesses and volunteer groups to care for the physical appearance of the river channel and corridor, and to serve as guardians of a particular river reach. The program is sponsored by both the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, as well as through private businesses and individuals who "adopt" one of the 28 river reaches. The program also sponsored a "Love Your River Day" (river clean-up) in February, a public Clean Up day in May as part of the Great American Clean Up with Rivers, and a 10 Year Anniversary Celebration in February at the Inn of Loretto. We also re-kindled the re-cycled art contest for children who used garbage collected from the river to create stunning works of art displayed at Santa Fe's Recycled Art Exhibit in November at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.

Filer

EIN

86-0996109