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09/27/2023
We had a blast during this year's Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta! It was a fantastic opportunity for folks to discover more ab...
09/25/2023

We had a blast during this year's Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta! It was a fantastic opportunity for folks to discover more about our local wildlife. Huge thanks to all who swung by our booth to say hello! Looking forward to next year's festivities! 🪻🐝🌞

09/25/2023

Saturday we celebrated ! A day we’re our volunteers joined us at Knapp Land Nature Preserve to help maintained our trails user friendly! 🙌🏽🌄

Thank you to all of you for always helping our Frontera team ! We also had students from who continue to be Stewards of the land 🤩🌄 along with two of our Junior Stewards Oliver & Owen 🤘🏾😊

We hope to keep meeting many of you and together let’s keep protecting our lands!

Happy Trails! 🥾

On Wednesday, Girl Scout troop 64135 did sign installation at Lost Dog Nature Preserve 🤩We would like to thank them for ...
12/24/2022

On Wednesday, Girl Scout troop 64135 did sign installation at Lost Dog Nature Preserve 🤩

We would like to thank them for being awesome stewards of the land 🙌🏽

📸 Janaé Reneaud-Field

From our Frontera familia to yours, we wish you a happy & healthy holiday season and a joyous New Year! 📸 Wendy Diaz; Ar...
12/23/2022

From our Frontera familia to yours, we wish you a happy & healthy holiday season and a joyous New Year!

📸 Wendy Diaz; Arizona Sandmat (Euphorbia arizonica)

"We are still waiting and we’re at the point where we’re waiting for the president...It’s time for him to take action an...
12/20/2022

"We are still waiting and we’re at the point where we’re waiting for the president...It’s time for him to take action and move forward on the national monument." — Janaé Reneaud-Field, Executive Director, The Frontera Land Alliance

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, is optimistic that Castner Range will finally receive permanent protections under President Joe Biden.

12/20/2022

Last week, conservationist and veteran, Judy Ackerman, was honored on the House floor. Judy Ackerman's passion for environmental conservation and dedication to land conservation will never be forgotten.

Our   is ✨Marci Turner✨Marci Turner was born and raised in New York and has been in El Paso for more than 50 years. She ...
12/18/2022

Our is ✨Marci Turner✨

Marci Turner was born and raised in New York and has been in El Paso for more than 50 years. She founded and was President of The Mexico Connection, Inc. for 28 years. Marci served on the Board of Directors of El Paso Better Business Bureau for 6 years and was Chairman of the Board for 2 years. She served on the Civil Service Commission for 5 years. Retiring in 2004, she has been active in various environmental issues including, but not limited to, the preservation of Thunder Canyon and the passage of El Paso’s current Dark Sky Ordinance. She and her husband founded and are still active in one of the first neighborhood associations in the City. Today Marci is an active board member, participating on the Marketing Committee, assisting with everything from member planning events, design of PR materials, to being a strong voice for conservation.

Are you shopping for the holidays? Consider supporting The Frontera Land Alliance 🌄 Simply select The Frontera Land Alli...
12/14/2022

Are you shopping for the holidays? Consider supporting The Frontera Land Alliance 🌄

Simply select The Frontera Land Alliance as your charity of choice through AmazonSmile, and Amazon will automatically donate a portion of your purchase directly to our work.

Or check out our Amazon wishlist! ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gHzH2W

Happy Holidays! 🤎

Yesterday, the Frontera team  visited our Las Cruces friends! We're we got to participate at the luminarias event 🕯️With...
12/11/2022

Yesterday, the Frontera team visited our Las Cruces friends!

We're we got to participate at the luminarias event 🕯️

With a leave no trace booth on campfire safety and a Castner Range booth 🌄

Thank you for inviting us 🙌🏽

Everyone loves a well-maintained and marked trail, right!? 🙋🏽‍♀️But do you know what it takes to make that happen? 🤔Last...
12/09/2022

Everyone loves a well-maintained and marked trail, right!? 🙋🏽‍♀️

But do you know what it takes to make that happen? 🤔

Last Sunday, we all learned how much work goes into maintaining our open spaces 🌄

Shoutout to Franklin High School students for being awesome land stewards 🤩🙌🏽 and to all of our crew leaders!

Come down, enjoy finger foods & drinks, and meet Frontera staff and other supporters just like you! At 3PM, we will begi...
12/06/2022

Come down, enjoy finger foods & drinks, and meet Frontera staff and other supporters just like you!

At 3PM, we will begin sharing Frontera’s successes for 2022, upcoming work in 2023, and will pause to remember Judy Ackerman’s legacy to conservation and community.

Winter Wonderland was so much fawn! Don Haskins PK-8 students learned about mule deer and the differences between a buck...
12/05/2022

Winter Wonderland was so much fawn! Don Haskins PK-8 students learned about mule deer and the differences between a buck, doe, and fawn! 🦌

Special thanks to our volunteer Rio Dominguez for helping us out! 👏

📸 Wendy Diaz

Check out this article via The New Yorker, about the importance of fighting for Castner Range and increasing accessibili...
12/04/2022

Check out this article via The New Yorker, about the importance of fighting for Castner Range and increasing accessibility to the outdoors, especially for El Paso, TX!

https://conta.cc/3OWMGL0

El Paso’s Castner Range could transform the way that underserved communities engage with the outdoors.

Our   is ✨Marshall Carter-Tripp✨Marshall Carter-Tripp was involved with the founding of The Frontera Land Alliance in 20...
12/04/2022

Our is ✨Marshall Carter-Tripp✨

Marshall Carter-Tripp was involved with the founding of The Frontera Land Alliance in 2004. Her career spanned 25 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, and eleven years as a political science professor (including a year as a visiting professor at UTEP!), and after her retirement, she served as director of the Centennial Museum at UTEP for five years. She had several tours as an Environment Science and Technology Counselor in different countries, learning about environmental issues and practices elsewhere. In Argentina, she had the pleasure and honor of working with the Mapuche Indians on a GLOBE education project. She has published four co-authored books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Marshall grew up in Newport News, Virginia and went to Beloit College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, concluding with a Ph.D in political science and law. She joined the Board of Directors in 2022, and sits on the marketing committee. She continues to be a dedicated advocate for conservation!

12/02/2022

We'll be at the Don Haskins PK-8 Winter Wonderland TODAY!
See you there!

Are you wondering if you should join our 2023 membership program ? Frontera is committed to preserving natural open spac...
11/30/2022

Are you wondering if you should join our 2023 membership program ?

Frontera is committed to preserving natural open spaces in the Chihuahuan Desert. 🌄

P.S you will join a fantastic community of nature lovers 🙌🏽

Stay tuned 🤩

Go Lights Out El Paso! We are nearing the end of fall migration, which ends November 30th, but don’t let turning off non...
11/30/2022

Go Lights Out El Paso! We are nearing the end of fall migration, which ends November 30th, but don’t let turning off non-essential lights fly over your head. Protect our feathered friends by turning off all non-essential lights at work or at home, both indoor and outdoor, between 11PM and 6AM. Doing so can help dramatically reduce the dangerous threats that birds face while migrating. Learn more at 🔗https://tx.audubon.org/urbanconservation/lights-out-texas

Audubon Texas

If you are shopping for the holidays or for this Cyber Monday consider supporting The Frontera Land Alliance 🌄 Simply se...
11/29/2022

If you are shopping for the holidays or for this Cyber Monday consider supporting The Frontera Land Alliance 🌄

Simply select The Frontera Land Alliance as your charity of choice through AmazonSmile and Amazon will automatically donate a portion of your purchase directly to our work.

Or check out our Amazon wishlist! ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gHzH2W

Happy Holidays! 🤎

11/25/2022

UPDATE: Hueco Tanks State Park has CANCELLED the Green Friday Hike this morning due to weather conditions.

11/25/2022

UPDATE: The El Paso Electric Company will reschedule the event for today since it will be raining all day at the Rio Bosque.

Designating Castner Range as a National Monument could "help close what researchers call a “nature gap”—the uneven distr...
11/24/2022

Designating Castner Range as a National Monument could "help close what researchers call a “nature gap”—the uneven distribution of access to nature within and among communities. El Paso, with its diminishing open spaces, is a national nature-gap hot spot."

Unexploded ordnance saved Castner Range from development. Now conservationists want to open it to the public.

Today and every day, Frontera is thankful for your continued support and dedication to special places and wide open spac...
11/24/2022

Today and every day, Frontera is thankful for your continued support and dedication to special places and wide open spaces. 💕

Hoy y todos los días, Frontera está agradecida por el continuo apoyo y dedicación a lugares especiales y espacios abiertos. 🌄

This Friday, join us as we  ! 🥾 Visit ➡️ bit.ly/OptOutsideSchedule to find an outdoor adventure near you or walk a Front...
11/24/2022

This Friday, join us as we ! 🥾
Visit ➡️ bit.ly/OptOutsideSchedule to find an outdoor adventure near you or walk a Frontera conserved open space!

"...the pride we would feel by knowing that conserving Castner Range protects many millennia of history and culture, and...
11/23/2022

"...the pride we would feel by knowing that conserving Castner Range protects many millennia of history and culture, and the honor we would feel by knowing we’d conserved a big part of Planet Earth, right here in our city." — Richard Teschner, The Frontera Land Alliance Advisory Board member
El Paso Matters

Designating El Paso’s Castner Range as a national monument would create more recreational space and preserve history.

📣SPONSORS SHOUT OUT✨As we enter this season of reflection & gratitude, we want to thank those businesses that supported ...
11/23/2022

📣SPONSORS SHOUT OUT✨
As we enter this season of reflection & gratitude, we want to thank those businesses that supported Frontera this year. Your generosity is appreciated, and we’re grateful for your partnership.

THANK YOU for making a difference & helping protect and preserve open natural spaces in our community. 🫶

Judy Ackerman, a force to be reckoned with, a powerful voice, and vigorous dedication to land conservation. The Frontera...
11/23/2022

Judy Ackerman, a force to be reckoned with, a powerful voice, and vigorous dedication to land conservation. The Frontera familia honors Judy Ackerman’s life. Read more about her passion for environmental conservation in this El Paso Times article.

Ackerman died Nov. 6 after battling cancer. She was a champion of environmental and social justice causes in El Paso. Local memorials are planned.

11/22/2022

Have you ever wondered who else visits Frontera’s open natural spaces? 🌄

In the trail cam footage, you can see a coyote wandering around our Chihuahuan Desert. Did you know that coyotes are a synanthropic species since they benefit from human-associated developments.

Coyotes have a highly organized social system, even in urban areas. For hunting, they usually travel alone or in loose pairs, in contrast to wolves. This leads to the impression that coyotes don’t form packs.

📹 Thank you Robert Haynes, for sharing your equipment with Frontera and for this amazing video!

Girl Scouts learned about bird beaks and experimented with beak functionality using household items during the Girl Scou...
11/18/2022

Girl Scouts learned about bird beaks and experimented with beak functionality using household items during the Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest Fall Open House! 🐦

Special thanks to Amelie Juarez for volunteering!

📸 Wendy Diaz

Frontera will be at tonight's Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest's Fall Open House. Stop by for fun hands-on activities...
11/16/2022

Frontera will be at tonight's Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest's Fall Open House. Stop by for fun hands-on activities and learn about bird bill adaptations with Frontera! 🐦

Don't miss us this Wednesday. The public is invited to our FREE Fall Open House and Service Fair. All girls and families welcome. No registration is required.

Come discover the world of Girl Scouting while having fun and making new friends. There will be hands-on activities related to STEM, Life Skills, Outdoors and Entrepreneurship.

Girl Scouts have always been all about "making the world a better place". Our Open House will also showcase the many ways that our troops and Girl Scouts give back to their communities all year long. Visit with local nonprofits and learn how you can also give back.

Don't miss our Letterboxing Scavenger Hunt and giveaways. Snacks and light refreshments provided. Free event.

Yesterday, Frontera’s Development Director accepted $7,500 as part of the 7th Annual El Paso Giving Day. Thank you, Paso...
11/16/2022

Yesterday, Frontera’s Development Director accepted $7,500 as part of the 7th Annual El Paso Giving Day. Thank you, Paso del Norte Community Foundation and special thanks to Marathon Petroleum Corporation for matching funds this year and supporting Frontera and 9 other non-profit organizations. With these funds we are able to conserve and preserve land and everything that comes within, including flora and fauna of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Photo courtesy of Paso del Norte Community Foundation

Thank you to all our members who attended our birds and coffee event. It was such a lovely morning! ☕️🍩What a great wrap...
11/12/2022

Thank you to all our members who attended our birds and coffee event. It was such a lovely morning! ☕️🍩

What a great wrap-up to our teaser events this fall! We are ready to launch our membership program next year officially!✨

We saw two flocks of migrating sandhill cranes, curve-billed trashers, and other fantastic birds!🤩

A special thanks to our guest speakers, Vicky & Dr. Floyd!🫶

TOMORROW! November 11, 2022 at 8AM🥾Join us for a Veteran's Day Hike at Knapp Land Nature Preserve, overlooking Castner R...
11/11/2022

TOMORROW! November 11, 2022 at 8AM

🥾Join us for a Veteran's Day Hike at Knapp Land Nature Preserve, overlooking Castner Range!

Did we mention free breakfast😋

Thank you veterans for your service! To thank you, The frontera land alliance is holding a Veteran's Day Hike and breakfast on Friday, November 11, 2022, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at Knapp Land. This hike is also in support of designating Castner Range as a national monument. For more information about the event, visit https://fb.me/e/37x3DlWsq.

Volunteers thinned out summer harvests, which were used as microgreens, pulled weeds out of fruit and vegetable beds, an...
11/07/2022

Volunteers thinned out summer harvests, which were used as microgreens, pulled weeds out of fruit and vegetable beds, and picked tomatoes! 🍅 Thank you volunteers for celebrating at Bodega Loya! 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾🌱

📸Wendy Diaz

When you become a member, some of the perks are having access to exclusive events such as this one! 🤩Join us on November...
11/07/2022

When you become a member, some of the perks are having access to exclusive events such as this one! 🤩

Join us on November 12th at 8:00 AM for coffee, donuts, and chats about birds with special guest speaker Dr. Kevin Floyd.
🍩☕️🌞

The Frontera Land Alliance is proud to partner with area organizations on a month-long   program where all can learn abo...
11/02/2022

The Frontera Land Alliance is proud to partner with area organizations on a month-long program where all can learn about the mysteries of our natural open spaces.

Events will start November 3 and run through November 27, 2022. For more specific details on all the events and schedule go to www.fronteralandalliance.org

Halloween Hike at Lost Dog 🌄!We want to thank everyone who joined us! We had a blast hiking while learning about night c...
11/01/2022

Halloween Hike at Lost Dog 🌄!

We want to thank everyone who joined us! We had a blast hiking while learning about night critters and our native plants in the Chihuahuan Desert.
🦂🤎

Thank you, Dr. Paul Hyder, for sharing all of your knowledge and expertise with us 🙌🏽🥾

Thank you El Paso Zoo Society for inviting us to Dia de los Mu***os at the Zoo! We had lots of fun and we celebrated ani...
10/30/2022

Thank you El Paso Zoo Society for inviting us to Dia de los Mu***os at the Zoo! We had lots of fun and we celebrated animals currently here in our Chihuahuan Desert and brought light to el lobo or Mexican gray wolf, whose previous geographic range included El Paso, with an alebrije activity.
🌺💀🌹 🕯️

📸 Emily Gomez

Our   is ✨Michael Gaglio✨Michael Gaglio’s career spans 20 years as a biologist and environmental consultant. In 2007 he ...
10/30/2022

Our is ✨Michael Gaglio✨

Michael Gaglio’s career spans 20 years as a biologist and environmental consultant. In 2007 he co-founded High Desert Native Plants, LLC, an environmental consulting and restoration services company with a focus on conservation-oriented solutions for the development industry. He has worked with entities such as The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land, and, with developers and commercial real estate practitioners. Over the years Mike has led hikes, expanded our network, and continues today to teach how to be better stewards of our lands and water.
He became involved with Frontera in 2007, and also volunteers with the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife performing deer surveys and dove banding. Frontera is grateful for Mike’s commitment to conservation, our community, and Frontera.

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"I went to Colorado to get my master’s, and saw that outdoor recreation is a thing. It’s a life style. I was, like, ‘Whoa, I can have that?’ And I started seeing that there are opportunities for that here, too."

Kathia Gonzales, frontera land alliance development director, spoke with the New Yorker on the importance of protecting El Paso's Castner Range as a national monument and highlighted the importance of protecting local places to improve public lands access. Great read!
“HIKE REVOLUCIONARIO”

El día de hoy acudimos a visitar el manantial del rancho flores (El arbolito) como parte de las actividades binacionales para promocionar actividades outdoor.

Es importante reconocer la importancia histórica de estos sitios dentro de la sierra, mismos que le dan un valor extraordinario para contribuir a la conservación.
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Today we went to visit the spring of the Flores ranch (El arbolito) as part of the binational activities to promote outdoor activities.

It is important to recognize the historical importance of these sites within the sierra, which give them extraordinary value to contribute to conservation.

Agradecemos a las personas que acudieron el día hoy 😊
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¡RECORDEMOS LA REVOLUCIÓN!
Este domingo tenemos recorrido.
📍Don Rayo, 07:30 am

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Thank you veterans for your service! To thank you, The frontera land alliance is holding a Veteran's Day Hike and breakfast on Friday, November 11, 2022, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at Knapp Land. This hike is also in support of designating Castner Range as a national monument. For more information about the event, visit https://fb.me/e/37x3DlWsq.

Honor those who served at a Veteran's Day Hike and breakfast led by The frontera land alliance on Friday, November 11, 2022, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at Knapp Land with vistas of the proposed Castner Range National Monument. This hike also encourages the efforts to designate Castner Range as a national monument. For more information about the event, visit https://fb.me/e/37x3DlWsq.
Nos unimos al dolor por la pérdida de Ackermans una persona amante de la naturaleza y dedicada de la conservación, gracias Judy por tu dedicación a la causa ambiental en la frontera.
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Step into the outdoors this November!

The El Paso Museum of Archaeology is partnering up with local organizations on an program to take people outdoors!

Check the list of events happening outside during the month of November as part of the program brought to you by frontera land alliance

And join us at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology on November 12 for our Yoga in the Desert event.

To learn more about events happening around you, visit www.fronteralandalliance.org
¿Listos para la siguiente actividad? ⛰️🥾❤️

Celebremos la revolución mexicana, conociendo el manantial de rancho flores, sitio de abastecimiento de agua durante la toma de ciudad Juárez, en época de revolución, ademas de continuar fomentando el conocimiento de flora y fauna de la región.

Con esta actividad estamos contribuyendo con una iniciativa binacional como opción de esparcimiento para aliviar el extra consumo por próximas compras decembrinas. 🇲🇽🤝🇺🇸

Te esperamos en
📍Don Rayo
🗓️Domingo 20 de noviembre,
🕗7:30 am
Destino: El arbolito
Duración: 4 hrs
Distancia: 4km/ 2.5 millas
Dificultad: Fácil

Te pedimos llevar ropa y calzado adecuado.
Snack.
Suficiente agua.
EVENTO GRATUITO
$30 pesos de estacionamiento por vehículo

Agradecemos a:
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Senderistas de ciudad Juárez
Matraca del desierto
Join the frontera land alliance for a fun and spooky Halloween Hike! Registration at the link in their post. 🎃🧟‍♂️
"This Hispanic Heritage Month, it's time to embrace natural spaces that give homage to our ancestors, provide opportunities for future generations." frontera land alliance

🏞 The frontera land alliance works not only works to educate the community about our local natural resources, but to also protect and preserve open spaces in our region for generations to come. To learn more about nonprofits participating in El Paso Giving Day, visit elpasogivingday.org.

Thank you frontera land alliance for taking my wife Nora and I on a guided nature walk to see the abundance of flora and fauna along the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Trail after all of the rain we’ve gotten recently.

Since I was a child looking at the “unexploded ammunition” signs there, I’ve never understood why neighboring Castner Range hadn’t been remediated so that it can be enjoyed by all. As your City Representative, I will advocate for Castner Range to formally be declared Castner Range National Monument so that it can get the resources it needs in order to be cleared of any hazards and opened to the public for hiking and recreation.

More generally, El Paso should do everything we can to preserve the precious open space on our beautiful mountain. It’s such an important resource for our recreation, health, and even economic development through ecotourism.
“It's protection they hope won’t take generations more to achieve.” Local advocates from frontera land alliance, Hispanic Access Foundation, and El Paso Community Foundation share why it’s time for President Joe Biden to protect Castner Range National Monument!
GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Frontera Land Alliance

We recently awarded the frontera land alliance a grant to further their work on one of our four priority campaigns for 2022, the Castner Range in Texas.

Frontera Land Alliance is the leading local grassroots group responsible for building strong community support for the protection of Castner Range. This grant is intended to help them scale up their communications capacity and provide funding for travel to Washington, DC to continue putting pressure on the administration to move forward with the monument designation.

Castner Range is a mountainous 7,081 acres located between city neighborhoods and Franklin Mountains State Park in the majority Latinx community of El Paso, Texas. Renowned for its annual display of blooming Mexican Yellow Poppies, Castner Range contains artifacts and petroglyphs dating back 12,000 years. In a state with only 4% public land, free access to open spaces is limited, and the majority low-income population in El Paso is often priced out of paying for access to parks.

For more information about this project and grantee, head over to our site: http://www.conservationalliance.com/grants/castner-range-national-monument/

📸: Mark Clune
Undersecretary of the Army and native El Pasoan Gabe Camarillo speaks to news media about the importance of Castner Range. Mr. Camarillo met with the El Paso Community Foundation, the Frontera Land Alliance and other community stakeholders this morning in a round table discussion organized by Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16).

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