Ciudad Soil and Water Conservatio District partners with City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, State Land Office and others to complete forest health projects in the East Mountains. This program is made possible by grants such as the Non Federal Lands Grant and the New Mexico Counties Associations Fuels Grant. 

In 2025 Ciudad expects to complete 18.6 acres of forest health thinning with Bernalillo County at the Sandia Knolls Open Space. Ciudad is also working with the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division to develop and implement forest health thinning projects on approximately 700 acres at the Milne-Gutierrez Open Space near Cedar Crest, work at Milne-Gutierrez is anticipated to begin in Fall 2025.

Ciudad SWCD has a decades long history of partnering with local agencies to accomplish critical wildifre risk reduction forest health projects in the East Mountains. Some of our past projects are described below. 

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City of Albuquerque Open Space:

Loma Ponderosa X acres Mastication

Juan Tomas Open Space X acres Mastication

San Antonito Opens Space - 2023/2024 ~160 Acres Hand Crew Forest Health Wildfire Fuels Reduction Project

Benalillo County Open Space

Sedillo Ridge Open Space (2014-2019) ~500 acres Mastication  Forest Health Wildfire Fuels Reduction Project

Sandia Knolls Open Space - 18.6 Acres Hand Crew Forest Health Wildfire Fuels Reduction Project

Ojito de San Antonito

State Land Offfice:

La Madera

Apple Valley