Watersheds and Waterfunds

Hot and Dry Podcast Series

EPISODE SUMMARY

Cally and Collin talk with Laura McCarthy and Bill Armstrong about how folks pulled together to restore the forest in the municipal watershed of Santa Fe, NM. From there Laura went on to start the Rio Grande Water Fund which covers 7 million acres in New Mexico. In 2019, she helped pass the Forest and Watershed Restoration Act, aimed at restoring forests across the entire state.

EPISODE NOTES

Cally and Collin talk about watershed restoration and how to pay for it with two experts from New Mexico.
episode art credit: Lenya Quinn-Davidson  norcalrxfirecouncil.org