Love Your Watershed Day 2025
Thank you for celebrating our watershed!
WHAT A DAY! More than 350+ people showed up to De Vargas Park on Saturday, May 10 to celebrate, connect, and take action for our local watershed!
A big shoutout to our partners at the City of Santa Fe’s River and Watershed Section for hosting the event with us, our incredible tabling partners for their delightful and educational activities, our dedicated volunteers and river cleanup crew, and wonderful musicians for bringing so much energy, joy, and purpose to the day.
It was truly meaningful to gather with so many families, friends, and neighbors in celebration of our vibrant watershed. Here’s to many more celebrations of community and connection!
Thank you to our amazing watershed community!
We enjoyed amazing live music by Lone Piñon and Repurposed Vibe, played with Queen Bee’s instrument petting zoo, cleaned the river with the amazing Trash Pandas and the Santa Fe Rotary Club, and took part in tabling activities that highlight the importance of our watershed, including:
- A Tree Spree! scavenger hunt with the SFWA education team
- Amazing aquatic critters and water chemistry with River Source
- Enviroscape nonpoint source watershed model with the City of Santa Fe River and Watershed Section
- The Watershed Resilience Lab at the University of New Mexico‘s stream sensors that measured stream solute properties of different waters
- A Museum of Trash with the Trash Pandas
- Animal tracking activities with Ann Hunkins of Next Step Animal Tracking
- Planting native flowers with El Rancho de La Golondrinas
- Backyard bass fishing with the New Mexico Wildlife Federation
- Games about beaver restoration with Santa Fe County
- The Santa Fe Conservation Trust‘s Bird Bingo and kids nature scavenger hunt
- Sierra Club, Northern Group‘s lessons on Gaia GPS, AllTrails, and other hiking aps
- Undisputed Fitness taught us how to warm up, lift, and stay injury-free and healthy while cleaning up the watershed
- Santa Fe River Commission. shared where rocks come from and what they tell us
- Walking Water experiment with Santa Fe Rotary Club
- O’ga P’ogeh Land Tax‘s coloring activity of Tewa names of local land and waterways
- And more games and activities with City of Santa Fe Water Conservation and Trees, Water & People
