You obviously were eager to resume in-person meetings—our first since October 2019—as evidenced by an almost full Sandia Ranger District (SRD) conference room last evening. After updates from Mike Madden, Sam Beard, and Tim Brown, District Ranger Crystal Powell and Acting Deputy District Ranger Julie Padilla brought us up to date on happenings in SRD during the past year and SRD’s plan of work and priorities for the coming year. Thanks, Crystal and Julie for a very informative presentation enhanced by the conference room upgrades! 

Presentation materials are available here.

In addition to 40 to 50 people in the conference room, at least eight members participated virtually using an experimental Zoom setup. Thanks to a lot of help from several of you—Joelle Hertel in particular—the experiment largely succeeded despite a few technical glitches for which I apologize. The most serious glitch was my inexplicable inability to share the speakers’ slides over Zoom. I’ll figure out what went wrong before our May meeting.

Thanks to everyone who participated. We look forward to seeing you again on May 2 when Hannah Russert will tell us about the Albuquerque Mountain Bike Association (AMBA).

Cliff Giles

FOSM VP