Hello Everyone,

On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, seven FOSM volunteers thinned 4 acres at the Cedro CFRP (Collaborative Forest Restoration Project) site south of Juan Tomas Road (FR-242).

During the second year of the Cedro CFRP, FOSM volunteers had already thinned 10.2 acres of the 12 acres scheduled for this year. 1.8 acres of the 4 acres thinned on Wednesday completes the 12 acres required for this year (10.2 + 1.8 = 12 acres). The remaining 2.2 acres thinned on Wednesday will count toward the 12 acres required to be thinned in year 3 of the Cedro CFRP.

After the work was stopped on Wednesday, Sam Beard and Dennis Crowther walked around the area thinned. We intentionally walked around some of the archaeological site marked with white ribbons. Due to the presence of the archaeological site, we did not plan to thin in this area. If thinning is done on an archaeological site, the slash must be carried off the site and not dragged across the ground. We selected the option of not thinning on the archaeological site. Most of the land in the archaeological site was meadow. Dennis used his GPS device to track the perimeter of the area and to compute the area of the thinned site.

After having completed the thinning of the 12 acres for this year, FOSM volunteers will begin felling hazard trees selected by Russell Berman, SRD employee. We will continue to thin at the Cedro site in the fall and thin as much of the next 12 acres as possible.

The volunteers were Steve Roholt, Sim Cook, Jerry Carroll, Don Carnicom, Dan Benton, Dennis Crowther, and Sam Beard.

Project photos are presented in the attached Word document.

Sam Beard, Projects Chair

Friends of the Sandia Mountains