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| Wilson Tours Bosque Areas to Learn about Restoration |
June 30, 2003 |
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| Albuquerque, NM - Congresswoman Heather Wilson will tour a burn area in the Rio Grande Bosque on Monday, followed by a tour of a previously burned area to learn about restoration and revegetaion techniques. The tour will be followed by a Learning/Listening Session with experts on the Bosque and the recovery efforts that are soon to come.
The burn area that will be toured is about 100 yards from the Montano Bridge, where the tour will begin. After that, the group will be taken to La Orilla, about 1 or 2 miles north of Montano on the west side of the Rio Grande River. La Orilla is a 35-acre location in the Bosque that burned in Spring 2002 and has been revegetated by the City`s Open Space Division. The tour will give Wilson and others "before and after" examples of what happens in the days and years after a wild fire like the one Albuquerque`s Bosque faced this week.
The tour of the burn/recovery area is open to the media. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be required. If your news personnel doesn`t already have PPE`s, please call Jerry Rohnert at 208-863-4246 to make arrangements. Any news personnel covering the tour will need to provide their own leather-soled boots containing no man-made materials or rubber.
The tour will begin at 7:15am at the northwest corner of Montano and the River, in a dirt parking lot. A National Guard van will be available to transport media to the two locations that will be toured, then back to your vehicles.
At 9am Wilson will meet with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, the Army Corps of Engineers, Cuidad Soil and Water Conservation District, City of Albuquerque/Open Space Division, Forest Service, and officials from the Rio Grande Nature Center. This meeting is also open to media, and there will be an opportunity for Q&A; immediately following:
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