Friends of the Candelaria Nature Preserve

Speaker Series June 2024
2024-06-27 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Denver) | ZOOM Meeting
Loving a Changing World — While Still Fighting for Justice Presented by Laura Paskus
Thursday, June 27, 5:00 – 6:15pm on Zoom

Speaker Laura Paskus is a longtime journalist in Albuquerque with a focus on climate change and the effects on the Rio Grande valley. She will give an online presentation about the expected impact of climate change on the Candelaria Nature Preserve, and how we can keep up the fight for justice for our precious planet. There should be ample time for questions.
This event is free and open to the public.
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FCNP July Speaker Series
2024-07-25 17:00 - 18:15
FCNP July 2024 Speaker Series
Long Term Ecological Research Project at Sevilleta NFR
Presented by Melissa (Missy) Bacigalupa, Program Manager

Thursday, July 27, 5:00 – 6:15pm on Zoom

Speaker Melissa (Missy) Bacigalupa is the manager of the day-to-day activities of the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project, including data collection and analysis, and experimental design and implementation. She will let us know what the LTER is learning, and how this study has helped with conservation at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.This event is free and open to the public.
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Friends of CNP Speaker Series - August 2024
2024-08-29 17:00 - 18:15 | ZOOM Meeting
Pueblo Agrarian Civilizations Along The Rio Grande Presented by Jon Ghahate
Thursday, August 29, 5:00 – 6:15pm on Zoom
** This meeting will be live-streamed to the Friends of CNP YouTube page **
Pueblo Cultural Educator Jon Ghahate discusses the legacy of the ancestral Puebloan agrarian civilizations who established, inhabited, and sustained their communities since time ‘immemorial’ and into the present along the Rio Grande. Yet, despite environmental challenges, colonization, the ‘encomienda’, territorial occupation, and US federal policies, these Pueblo communities have resided on their ancestral homelands, maintained their cultural traditions, and perpetuated their communal agrarian practices, and most importantly, their unique languages.
The ‘Cradle of Civilization’, historically, has been referred to with numerous labels: Greater Khorāsān, Mesopotamia, the Ancient Near East, etc. We now refer to this region of our planet as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and surrounding sovereign countries. What is portrayed as agrarian civilizations inform us that certain social structures and characteristics were the impetus for the development of agriculture and agrarian societies. Wheat, barley, and other commodities have their origins from this area. The promotion of hybridizations, i.e., artificial selections contributed to the development of these specific crops. This is just one side of our Earth.
In the Western Hemisphere, the same principles of hybridization, artificial selection, and bio-scientific principles were fundamental in the establishment and sustainability of many Indigenous agrarian civilizations throughout the Western Hemisphere before incursion by representatives of Eastern Hemisphere kingdoms. Specifically, in what is now referred toas the Rio Grande Corridor, Ancestral Puebloan and Pueblo agrarian civilizations thrived. Despite encroachment, colonization, and territorial rule, their descendants are fortunate to still practice the core principles of ‘stewardship’ of an agrarian society.

Jon Ghahate is of the Pueblos of Laguna and Zuni and of the Turkey and Badger Clans. Jon is an Educator at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. Previously, he was the Museum Cultural Educator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jon was a Kellogg National Leadership Program Fellow. He is a parent of two children and resides on the homelands of the Pueblo peoples in the State of New Mexico.

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Open House
2024-10-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Candelaria Nature Preserve
Friends of Candelaria Nature Preserve (CNP) will hold an In-person gathering for friends and neighbors on Saturday, October 19, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon.

Please join us, find out what’s going on at the Preserve and what the Friends of CNP are up to.

Location: Tree Nursery Tract on Rio Grande Blvd., south of Cherokee Rd. NW.
Parking on premises.
Light refreshments provided.

If any questions, contact Jeannie Allen at: < friendsofcandelarianaturepres@gmail.com >

We hope to see you!

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January 2025 Speaker
2025-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | ZOOM Meeting
January 2025 FCNP Speaker Series
RESCHEDULED to February 6, 2025

Options for the Future of Friends of CNP

Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 5pm – 6:15pm on Zoom

The CNP Resource Management Plans was written in 2017-2021, and that’s when Jeannie took on the task of creating a Friends of CNP. Four joyful years later, the Plan is coming to fruition, and the Friends of CNP are a robust group of 125 members. It is now time for someone new to lead our Friends of CNP to another phase of its life.

So what has been accomplished, and what’s next?
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Our speakers:
Jeannie Allen has led Friends of Candelaria Nature Preserve since its inception in 2021. She explores visual arts and music in the NM mountains south of Black Lake and in Albuquerque.

Cameron Weber serves as Habitat Conservation Program Director for Rio Grande Return. Her projects are primarily focused on rewilding agricultural landscapes and ecological systems dependent on human participation. She has a BA in social and political philosophy and German and holds a master’s from UNM in Community and Regional Planning, where she focused her thesis research on the use of long-term ecological monitoring data for Middle Rio Grande habitat restoration planning and evaluation. Cameron has over 15 years of cumulative experience in ecological farming, native plant materials, conservation planning, and habitat restoration project management.
