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Order Your Free Small Trees and Shrubs to Plant

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The Interfaith Forest of Bliss tree planting project (a program connected with Interfaith Power and Light) ordered small seedlings that will arrive early September. We have chosen very good varieties for our region for low water, beauty, and wildlife and pollinators. We are taking orders with a commitment to pick up the trees in Albuquerque when they arrive and that they will be cared for and loved.  If you want to order through your faith community give us the order in one lot. We keep a record of all plantings.

Contact Ann McCartney asims98891@aol.com

Please order by August 20

Here is the information we need

Tree or plant type

Number of trees

Name of person

Location

E-mail and phone address

Faith community

 

Tree Varieties Available

Desert Willow

Growth Rate: Fast

Mature Height:  25 feet

Water Requirements:  Low

Alkalinity Tolerance:  high

 Elevation:  3000 – 6000

Cold Hardiness:  Fair-Good

Color:  It has showy white and pink flowers

Suggested Uses:  windbreaks, erosion control, screens, and wildlife plantings.

Pest Problems: no major pests

Tree Description: A native shrub or small tree found in washes and along roadsides. This species is tolerant of poor soils and considerable drought. The wood is often used for fence posts. It has medium calcium carbonate tolerance and low salinity tolerance. The optimum soil pH is 6.6 to 10.0 with intermediate shade tolerance. Crown width 20 feet.

New Mexico Foresteria/ NM Olive

Growth Rate: Moderate

Mature Height: 8-10 feet

Water: Low

Alkalinity: Moderate

Elevation: 4,000-7,500

Cold Hardiness: Good

Color: Small yellow flowers on female plants produce small bluish-black berry

Uses: Windbreaks, wildlife plantings, and erosion control

Pest Problems: none

Description: Also called NM Olive or Privet, this native shrub has a broad range in New Mexico. It is widely used by birds for small black olive-shaped fruit, and forms a dense thicket or small tree excellent for controlling erosion. High calcium carbonate tolerance and medium salinity tolerance. Optimum soil pH is 7.0 to 8.5. It is shade intolerant. The width is between 8 and 12 feet.

 

Shrubs

Growth Rate: Moderate-fast

Water usage: Low

Alkalinity Tolerance: Moderate-High

Preferred Elevation:  300-7,500

Gold Hardiness:  Good

Suggested Uses: Erosion control, wildlife plantings, windbreaks

Pests: None

Description:  Low water and drought Tolerant plants including Winterfat, Four-wing saltbrush, Chamisa (rubber rabbitbrush), Littleleaf sumac.

Register Now for 18th Annual Gila River Festival Online

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This year’s festival theme, One Water, Many Currents, will explore the many ways in which water connects us and is the common thread weaving together the Gila River watershed’s human and ecological communities of the past, present and into the future.

Nuevomexicana writer and biologist Leeanna Torres opens the festival on Thursday night, September 22nd at the WNMU Global Resource Center Auditorium with the Sonnie Sussillo Memorial Keynote Presentation, sharing her personal narrative through the thread of the great Gila.
On Friday night, September 23rd, a panel discussion focused on the indigenous connections to the Gila River from its headwaters in New Mexico to the Great Bend of the Gila in southwest Arizona includes Archaeology Southwest’s Tribal Outreach Fellow Skylar Begay, Gila River Indian Community historic preservation officer Barnaby Lewis, Fort Sill Apache Tribe Chairwoman Lori Gooday Ware and moderated by Diné anthropologist Alex Mares.
Landscape photographer Michael Berman will present After the Fires, a “little verbal ramble” along with photos from the post-fire Gila Wilderness on Saturday, September 24 at 10 am at the Silco Theater.
Living history actor, rancher and conservationist, Neil Fuller will share his stories of growing up on a ranch on the Gila Lower Box in a special storytelling event with the Silver City Museum entitled A Life Entwined with the Gila: Reminiscences and Observations of a Rancher/Conservationist on Saturday, September 24th at 1pm in the Silver City Museum Courtyard.
With 20+ field trips and workshops to choose from, connect with the Gila River and its human and ecological communities through one-of-a-kind experiences from birding, to rock art, to fly fishing.
We are excited to welcome back the Fort Sill Apache Fire Dancers with the Gooday Family! They will share with us the Dance of the Mountain Spirits scheduled for Saturday, September 24th at WNMU’s Regent’s Square.
Bringing the 18th annual festival to a close, a Gila River Blessing – One River: Many Faiths, Many Cultures, Many Voices – will be held at Mogollon Box on Sunday morning, September 25 and led by faith leaders from several traditions, including to date Claudia Elferdink (Unitarian Universalist), Mariam Wiedner (Sufi community), Norma Santos, Daniel Hernandez, and Athena Wolf (La Escuela de Curanderismo), Gwen Lacy (Quakers), Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apache leaders (invited), and others to be confirmed.

 

Register for “Encouraging Faith Communities to Vote – Sermons on the Importance of Voting”

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Faith leaders understand the importance of using their prophetic voices to call the faithful to live by their most deeply-held values. In an election year, voting is one way that we can bring forth a world rooted in those values–values of justice, hope, courage, and love for all of God’s Creation, our Sacred Earth. But to do this, we need to make sure that people of faith are voting. That starts with our congregations.

We invite you to join IPL President Rev. Susan Hendershot; IPL Board Chair Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley; IPL Board member Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb; and Islamic Organization of North America Imam and President Mustapha Elturk for a discussion about encouraging our faith communities to vote by offering sermons, divrei Torah, and khutbahs on the importance of voting. We’ll also share nonpartisan resources to help you in developing these messages to encourage the members of your faith community to vote.

Register Here

 

Carlsbad Current Argus. Sep. 3, 2020 New Mexico finalizes oil and gas wastewater regulations, lawmakers hear testimony (Rev. Nick King Quoted)

Las Cruces Sun-News,  Aug. 19, 2020, Report on solving climate crisis brings hope (Co-authored by Michael Sells, Clara Sims and Edith Yanez)

Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 15, 2020 Vote your values this November  (Commentary by Larry Rasmussen and Tabitha Arnold)