QRP POTA Activation of Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
A short but challenging hike up the bluffs of this expansive refuge in central NM. I bring along my KX2 and Buddistick for a Parks on the Air activation on a beautiful day. Spring is on its way! (Special guest appearance by fellow Youtuber K8MRD Radio stuff!)
The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of New Mexico managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It is located in the Chihuahuan desert 20 miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. The Rio Salado flows through the refuge.
Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | Wikipedia audio article
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Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
00:00:20 1 History
00:02:16 2 Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program
00:02:45 3 Facilities
00:03:19 4 Endangered species
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The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of New Mexico managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It is located in the Chihuahuan desert 20 miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. The Rio Salado flows through the refuge.
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Conservation Connect: Small Mammals
Join us at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico where Chelsea McKinney interviews Ariel Elliot a small Mammal Biologist and see what animals the desert provides habitat for.
Camping in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge BLM
Discover Socorro County, New Mexico
Discover beautiful Socorro County, New Mexico. Learn more about the Very Large Array, Festival of the Cranes, SocorroFest, New Mexico Tech, NRAO, the City of Socorro, and the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce at and
Grulla National Wildlife Refuge
On the east side of the plains of New Mexico, there is a giant salt playa lake.
S.O.T.A Activation Capilla Peak NM - Ham Radio at 9300 Feet
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I take a harrowing drive up to an 8 point peak in NM for a Summits on the Air activation. A beautiful mountain location in central New Mexico using my KX2 and Buddistick!
Update 5/11. Thanks Mike K8MRD for pointing out that only 4 QSOs are required for S.O.T.A activation.
The Manzano Mountains are a small mountain range in the central part of the US State of New Mexico. They are oriented north-south and are about 40 miles (65 km) long. The center of the range lies about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Albuquerque, and the northern foothills (termed the Manzanitas) are just a few miles east of the edge of the city. The name Manzano is Spanish for apple tree; the mountains were named for apple orchards planted at the nearby town of Manzano.[
Socorro Seismic Deployment
Dr. Susan Bilek describes the deployment of seismometers to look at the Socorro Magma Body. With project colleagues and students, they placed 7 broadband seismometers, plus a dense array 800 vertical-component seismometers to look at seismicity and deformation around the magmatic intrusion.
Produced by Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated for IRIS
Interview of Dr. Susan Bilek, New Mexico Tech
Project is a collaboration between New Mexico Tech, University of New Mexico, and Colorado State University
Acknowledgments: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, the PASSCAL Instrument Center which supplied broadband seismometers and facilitated use of 800 Nodes from Nodal Seismic, and the National Science Foundation. Photographs from Mouse Reusch, PASSCAL.
Global warming accelerates drought-induced forest death
Many southwestern forests in the United States will disappear or be heavily altered by 2050, according to a series of joint Los Alamos National Laboratory-University of New Mexico studies. Nathan McDowell, a Los Alamos plant physiologist, and William Pockman, a UNM biology professor, explain that their research, and more from scientists around the world, is forecasting that by 2100 most conifer forests should be heavily disturbed, if not gone, as air temperatures rise in combination with drought. Everybody knows trees die when there's a drought, if there's bark beetles or fire, yet nobody in the world can predict it with much accuracy. McDowell said. What's really changed is that the temperature is going up, thus the researchers are imposing artificial drought conditions on segments of wild forest in the Southwest and pushing forests to their limit to discover the exact processes of mortality and survival. The study is centered on drought experiments in woodlands at both Los Alamos and the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. Both sites are testing hypotheses about how forests die on mature, wild trees, rather than seedlings in a greenhouse, through the ecosystem-scale removal of 50 percent of yearly precipitation through large water-diversion trough systems.
A Five Day Journey Through Socorro & Sierra Counties in Southern New Mexico
The first half of the tour spotlights attractions in Socorro County New Mexico: the Very Large Array, the town of Madrid, the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, the El Camino International Heritage Center, the Owl Bar & Cafe, and downtown Socorro's Mission de San Miguel. Sierra County's featured attractions include Chloride, Elephant Butte Lake, Truth or Consequences hot springs, and historic Hillsboro.
Socorro Magma Body—What it is and the monitoring strategy
Animation of seismic project. The Socorro Magma Body, New Mexico is the 2nd largest magma body within continental crust in the world. It is inflating the earth’s surface at a rate of about 1.5–2 mm/year, as measured since 1911. Dr. Susan Bilek, colleagues, and teams placed 7 broadband seismometers, plus a dense array 800 vertical-component seismometers to look at seismicity and deformation around the Socorro Magma Body.
Animation by Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated for IRIS
Interview of Dr. Susan Bilek, New Mexico Tech
Photographs courtesy Mouse Reusch, PASSCAL
Project is a collaboration between New Mexico Tech, University of New Mexico, and Colorado State University
Acknowledgments: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, the PASSCAL Instrument Center which supplied broadband seismometers and facilitated use of 800 Nodes from Nodal Seismic, and the National Science Foundation.
The Fence and the Fire
Flashback!
Happy Valentine's Eve... This is the beginning of my posting my Arizona Border Film Series... 10, possibly 11 if I can finish the last 1 about the Monument fire, the last straw in the border war that we could take... that caused us to have to leave our lovely home in Hereford, AZ.
Note: Comments best directed to legislators. They have the power... legislators on both sides of our border. A summit should happen to make solutions and now, not in 10 or more years.
This film Documents the Minuteman Border Fence Project Ceremony Memorial Day weekend 2006 on The Ladd Ranch, Palominos, Arizona... during a severe wind and dust storm.
It includes information about The 103 Fire that consumed 2,050 acres. It started during Minuteman fence building activities. Conflicting information about the fire is included.
Guest speakers and participants include Rep. Steve King, US Congressman Fifth District of Iowa, keynote speaker... Alan Keyes, founder, RenewAmerica.US...
Bob Wright, National Assistant Executive Director, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps... Chris Simcox, President, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC)...
Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring, WeNeedAFence.com... Jim Campbell, Border Fence Contributor, Minuteman, Arizona... Janetta Holt, The 103 Fire Public Information Officer... Barry Arcala, Minuteman, Arizona... James Coniglio, Minuteman, Arizona...
Nathaniel Ryan McCarty, Fire Crew, Sierra Vista Ranger District... Carmen Mercer, Vice-President, MCDC... Al Garza, Executive Director MCDC...
Don Goldwater, 2006 Candidate for Governor, Arizona... Kara Peters, Student Employee Sierra Vista Ranger District... Eric Lathrop, Fire Engine Captain, Sierra Vista Ranger District...
Dennis Haygood, Fire Engine Captain, Sierra Vista Ranger... Gary M. Thrasher, DVM, Arizona Veterinarian...
Bill Wilcox, District Fire Management Officer, Sierra Vista Ranger District, Coronado National Forest... Alan Keyes, Founder RenewAmerica.us...
Keynote Speaker Joe Condon, Minuteman, California... Dennis Jennings, Minuteman, New Mexico... Bafflin Bill Cody, Magician and Minuteman, San Diego, CA... and Robert M. Hassett, Minuteman, Colorado.
Includes U. S. Border Patrol Illegal Alien Entry Data and Cochise County, Arizona and Fire Data, Sierra Vista Ranger District.
Shot in Palominas, Cochise County and Naco, Sonora, Mexico on the USA/Mexico border.
This film is 1 in a series of independent documentaries recording living history using primary resources material for general general education, sociology, anthropology and immigration studies.
96 minutes.
What can new Border Patrol camera tower see?
New camera tower in Coronado National Forest may be unable to see people sneaking in from Mexico. Pres. Trump is supposed to build an impassible wall right here so why build it?
American Border Patrol - a non-profit made the video on March 23, 2017.
The Quebradas Backcountry Scenic Byway
January 16 & 17, 2010. The Quebradas Scenic Backcountry Byway is an unpaved county road traversing about 24 miles of rugged, colorful landscapes east of Socorro, New Mexico. Two National Wildlife Refuges are only a few miles from this Byway Sevilleta to the north and Bosque del Apache to the south. Much of the Byway includes rolling bench lands that rise above the Rio Grande floodplain to the west and rugged north-south running ridges of alternating bands of red and yellow sandstone, red and purple shale, and white to gray limestone. -=-=-=-=-=-
The Quebradas Back country Byway. The south end of the Byway begins 11 miles east of San Antonio via US 380 at County Road A-129. From the north, take the Escondida exit off Interstate 25 and follow the east frontage road to the north to Escondido Lake. Head east and pass over the Rio Grande. At Pueblito, turn right and head south for about 1 mile to the beginning of the Byway. Turn left and go east and look for the Byway signs and information.
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My first P.O.T.A. activation. QRP Portable Ham Radio.
Join me as I have my first successul P.O.T.A (Parks on the Air) activation at Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque New Mexico. Great conditions and 10 watts got me all across the country with portable ham radio
Petroglyph National Monument protects one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America, featuring designs and symbols carved onto volcanic rocks by Native Americans and Spanish settlers 400 to 700 years ago. These images are a valuable record of cultural expression and hold profound spiritual significance for contemporary Native Americans and for the descendants of the early Spanish settlers.
Optimizing Irrigation in New Mexico
In New Mexico, drought is a life and death situation for farmers and ranchers. Even irrigated crops fall well below yield expectations during years of severe persistent drought. It was the drastic droughts of the 1950s in this region that made water delivery one of the key engineering challenges in this state.
But not all regions have adequate storage or water delivery systems. Water loss is high, simply in moving irrigation water down open canals for long distances. New Mexico State University is working with water users throughout the state to help improve efficiency and management of valuable water resources.
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Produced by NMSU Media Productions
Bug Safety for New Mexico Kid's Tutorial
surprised I couldn't find anything like this by searching! Important to teach this to New Mexico kids who like to go outdoors!
San Lorenzo Canyon Day Trip - Hiking and Flying The Drone Over The Canyon.
Located in the beautiful state of New Mexico, this little gem is in the Chihuahuan Desert. San Lorenzo Canyon is a surprising little canyon tucked into high desert landscape on BLM land northwest of Socorro, New Mexico, and south of the Sierra Ladrones. The canyon backs up to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge to the west, and can be easily accessed from the small town of Lemitar. Despite its proximity to I-25, it is lightly visited due to its remote location in New Mexico.
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How to get here:
From Albuquerque, head south on I-25 towards Socorro. Take exit 156 at Lemitar (about 7 miles north of Socorro) and head west. There is a Phillips 66 station here for fuel, food, or a restroom break. Take the frontage road on the west-side of the freeway north for about 5 miles. When the road takes a 90 degree turn to the right under the freeway, you will see a signpost for San Lorenzo Canyon and a maintained dirt road heading due west. Follow this road for 2 miles. Keep your eyes peeled for another dirt road and signboard for San Lorenzo that turns to the right. Take this road and follow it 2.2 miles to the canyon mouth. The road has spurs, but the main road is easy to follow. It also goes in and out of washes with sand. I had no problem navigating the road in a two-wheel drive vehicle. However, when there have been heavy rains, the road may require a four-wheel drive vehicle.
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Cause of Sevilleta Fire: Someone stealing machine parts
tonight, investigators say they know what caused a fire in socorro county that has burned about 27- hundred acres. a couple hours ago ....state forestry told us the sevilletta fire was started over the weekend by sparks from a hand held metal grinder that someone was using on private land. the fire is 50 percent contained tonight.