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**Agenda**

[Tuesday, May 14, 2002]{.underline}

8:30-9:00 am Registration

9:00-9:30 am Welcome -- Dr. Thomas Chavez, Executive Director, National
Hispanic

Cultural Center of New Mexico

Introductions -- Cynthia Abeyta, Middle Rio Grande Coordinator/

Hydrologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Presentations by RIO: Recognize Its Ours --

*Conversations con el Rio*, James Aranda

*To Asdzaan*, Coleen Gorman

> History of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque Initiative -- Dr. Cliff
> Crawford,
>
> Professor Emeritus/Research Professor, University of New Mexico

9:30-9:50 am Opening remarks -- Anne-Kathryn Ziehe, Senior Counsel for
Land and

Water Issues, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici's Office

9:50-10:10 am Overview of MRGBI Projects funded during FY01-02 --
Cynthia Abeyta

10:10-10:20 am Walking tour of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque Initiative
Website --

Jennifer Follstad Shah, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

10:20-10:30 am BREAK

[Research Panel]{.underline}

10:30-10:40 am Bosque Hydrology Group -- Paul Tashjian, Hydrologist,
U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service

10:40-11:00 am Middle Rio Grande FLO-2D Model Development and
Calibration -- Jim

O'Brien, Tetra Tech ISG

11:00-11:20 am Water use by Middle Rio Grande Phreatophytes, Monitoring
the Contributions of Russian Olive, Salt Cedar and Cottonwood --

Dr. James Cleverly, University of New Mexico

11:20-11:40 am Jardines del Bosque Research Station: Urban Ecology on
the Rio Grande -- Carlos Vasquez, Director of Research and Literary
Arts, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico

11:40 am-12:00 Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Project (BEMP) -- Dr. Cliff
Crawford

12:00 -1:00 pm LUNCH (on your own)

Local restaurants within walking distance: La Fonda del Bosque

(located at the Center), Barelas Coffee House, El Model, Taco

Riendo

1:00-1:20 pm Implementation Plan/Update, Middle Rio Grande Ecosystem:
Bosque

Biological Management Plan **--** Deb Hibbard, Middle Rio Grande

Coordinator, Rio Grande Restoration

[Restoration/Fuels Reduction Panel]{.underline}

1:20-1:40 pm Salt cedar removal, control, and maintenance **--** John
Taylor, Bosque

del Apache National Wildlife Refuge

1:40-2:00 pm Socorro Save Our Bosque Task Force/Fire Breaks on Flood
Plain of

Rio Grande **--** Doug Boykin, District Forester, New Mexico Energy,

Minerals and Natural Resources Department

2:00 -2:25 pm Fuels Reduction Project in the Middle Rio Grande **--**
Yasmine Najini,

Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Ondrea Linderoth

Hummel, City of Albuquerque, John Taylor, Bosque del Apache

National Wildlife Refuge

2:25-2:45 pm Questions/Discussion

2:45-3:00 pm BREAK

3:00-3:20 pm Bosque Education Guide/Update and Educator's
Training/Support **--**

Mary Stuever, Seldom Seen Expeditions

3:20-3:30 pm Wrap-up and briefing for Wednesday's field trip

3:30-5:00 pm Guided tour of the Jardines del Bosque Research Station and

Educational Center, Visit the National Hispanic Cultural Center of

New Mexico (on your own)

[Wednesday, May 15, 2002]{.underline}

8:30-9:00 am Field trip briefing (meet at the National Hispanic Cultural
Center of New

Mexico)

9:00-10:30 am Sandia Pueblo Restoration Project -- Sandia Pueblo, Beth
Janello, Mona

Aragon

10:30-12:00 San Antonio Oxbow -- City of Albuquerque/Open Space
Division, Ondrea

Linderoth Hummel

12:00-12:30 pm Lunch at Tingley Beach (bring your own lunch, beverages
will be

provided)

12:30-1:30 pm Bosque Restoration Demonstration Project **--** Tingley
Beach, Rio Grande

Restoration, Deb Hibbard

1:30-3:30 pm Los Lunas River Park Project -- Tree New Mexico, Inc., Sue
Probart

4:15 pm Return to National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico