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  • September

    National Public Lands Day is Sept. 26, 2015. NPLD is the nation's largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands. It began in 1994 with three sites and 700 volunteers. It proved to be a huge success and became a yearly tradition, typically held on the last Saturday in September.

    District waives fees, holds events in observance of National Public Lands Day

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will waive day use fees normally charged at boat launch ramps and swimming beaches at its recreation areas nationwide in recognition of National Public Lands Day on Sept. 26. The Albuquerque District also announced that there will be National Public Lands Day events at Abiquiu, Cochiti and Santa Rosa lakes in N.M. and at John Martin Reservoir in Colo.

  • May

    ABIQUIU LAKE, N.M., -- Katherine Eagleson, director of the Espanola Wildlife Center, shares about the kestrel to volunteers at Abiquiu Lake's Earth Day event, April 20, 2013.

    Abiquiu Lake Celebrates Earth Day with the American Kestrel

    The park rangers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Abiquiu Lake and staff of the Espanola Wildlife Center celebrated Earth Day 2013 with volunteers who learned about the American Kestrel and then built and installed nesting habitat for the “sparrow hawk” around Abiquiu Lake April 20.
  • At the ceremony celebrating the new low-flow turbine at Abiquiu was (L to R), Operations Project Manager Dave Dutton, Senator Tom Udall, Deputy Commander Maj. Richard Collins and Abiquiu Park Ranger Eric Garner.

    New Turbine Increases Hydroelectric Power

    Despite a rough beginning more than two decades ago, the Abiquiu hydroelectric facility’s third turbine officially turned on when Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) pushed the start button at a ceremony at the facility April 21.

  • January

    Bird Handler Scott Bol and Maxwell the bald eagle of the Espanola Wildlife Center demonstrate eagle characteristics to volunteers at the eagle watch event.

    Crowd Spies Abiquiu Eagles

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Abiquiu Lake hosted its eighth annual midwinter eagle watch on Jan. 8. There were 15 confirmed eagle sightings, the most ever.