Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District, in partnership with Rio Grande Return and Valencia Soil & Water Conservation District are implmenting a Wildland Seed Harvesting Pilot Program between August 2024 through May of 2025.  The objective of the Wildland Seed Harvesting program is to address the lack of…

Ciudad SWCD's East Mountain Forest Health Program (EMFHP) offers technical and financial assistance to East Mountain residents for thinning of overly dense forested properties. In general untreated East Mountain properties have 2x as many trees as they should for optimal forest health and defensible space…

Our Rolling River is a working model of a watershed, mounted on a trailer that is transported to schools and special events. The trailer is filled with sand-like recycled plastic that can be molded into nearly any type of landscape and outfitted with miniature forests, farms, and cities. Rolling River…

Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division to manage and restore 90 acres of former farmland in the North Valley to a wildlife cropping system using healthy soil principles, no-till methods and native riparian and upland habitat at the Candelaria…

Ciudad SWCD is proud to have representatives sit on the Land and Water Summit Planning Committee and also acts as the fiscal manager for the annual event

The ecological health of the Tijeras Creek Watershed is directly related to the ecological health of the larger Rio Grande watershed. Unfortunately, the Tijeras Creek Watershed is negatively impacted by many factors including erosion, streambed incision and floodplain disconnection, non-native vegetation such…