[Volunteers_fosm] FOSM Working with Talking Talons Youth Leadership (TTYL) Crew

[Joseph C. Giles]

Sorry to clutter your mailboxes, but my previous send of this message came through garbled in my Apple Mail client and with the body of the message completely missing in my Outlook client. Perhaps the image was too large. Here goes again.


June means it time for us old-timers once again to enjoy being around a delightful group of hard-working young adults. Each year at about this time Talking Talons Youth Leadership (TTYL) <https://www.talkingtalons.org/>, Sandia Ranger District (SRD), and FOSM partner to provide an opportunity for a half-dozen or so TTYL participants to gain boots-on-the-ground experience working in the Cibola National Forest. This year’s activities have focused on a major project to restore dilapidated fencing around Kiwanis Meadow on Sandia Crest.

May 29 - Lou Romero, FOSM's youth outreach coordinator, held a training workshop with this year's TTYL crew.
May 30 - A trailer-truck load of pressure-treated materials for the Kiwanis Meadow buck-and-rail fence restoration project arrived at the Sandia Ranger Station. Joelle Hertel, FOSM Special Projects Lead, ordered these materials and associated hardware from United Wood Products in Longmont, Colorado, at a cost of approximately $13,000. FOSM was able to purchase these materials thanks to a generous bequest from the estate of Dr. Charles Wood.
May 31 - FOSM volunteers and SRD fire fighters fabricated bucks for the fence at the FOSM Guard Station.
June 3 - TTYL crew members fabricated remaining bucks for the fence.
June 4 - TTYL crew members helped SRD personnel Manny Chavez and Canyon Young load prefabricated materials onto FS trucks and trailer, haul to the job site, and unload. Construction of the fence began.
June 5 - TTYL crew members helped the FOSM trail construction crew led by Laura Leon perform trail improvements in the Kiwanis Meadow area.
June 9 and 10 - TTYL crew members helped Joelle and Sam stage materials , install sections of the new fence, and obliterate old user trails through the meadow.
June 11 - TTYL crew members helped the FOSM general projects crew and Kaitlin Velarde (SRD intern) mostly complete installation of new fence.
June 12 - TTYL crew members helped Laura Leon and the FOSM trail construction crew extend the Wagon Trail in Sulphur Canyon Picnic Area.

The TTYL crew will work with FOSM through Wednesday, June 18. Photos from this year’s activities will be added here <https://friendsofthesandias.org/projects/projects-youth-orientation/youth-outreach-service-projects/> to those from previous years in the coming days.

Cliff Giles, FOSM VP