Click here to check out our Youth Blog
Youth will be meeting with representatives on climate and water issues..click here to see their stories…To blog: 1st login by going the bottom of the RiverSource.net front page & clicking on “Student Login”. 2nd, enter the username /password you have from your teacher. Third, click on “Posts” and “Add New”. Then start blogging! Click to the right for guidance […]
Join us Amplifying Youth Voices in Watershed and Forest Restoration!
Please join us to learn from students from West Las Vegas, Robertson and New Mexico Highlands University along with young and seasoned watershed and forest restoration professionals! See the agenda and flyer. Draft Agenda Después del Fuego: Wildfire Preparedness, Restoration, and Recovery A Youth-Focused Community Conference Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 1-5pm Location: the Wildfire […]
Invest in Community-based Water Monitoring & Decision-making Tools for Collaborating and Scaling our Work
Negative stressors on watersheds, forests, and our communities needing secure water are profoundly impacting the Southwest US, the very place where so much water originates in the mountains and forests. The coupling of climate change with megadrought is wreaking havoc across urban and rural communities in New Mexico and communities are struggling with the impacts […]
What the Watershed Academy Internship has meant to me by Tian Sandoval
Hello, my name is Tian Sandoval. I am from San Felipe Pueblo and the Zuni tribe, I have been working as a seasonal intern for River Source since I graduated high school in 2022. I was introduced to environmental sciences in my junior and senior years of high school. In those classes, we got the […]
Seeking the Leading Edge of Community Watershed Health and Training Water Protectors
Summer 2023 passed with three of us running five crews of 35 people in five communities in northern New Mexico and we didn’t have any major incidents. Whew!!! What a relief and time to reflect on some of the amazing experiences we had seeking the leading edge of engaging the next generation of water protectors […]
My interests in environmental conservation
My name is Tian Sandoval and I am from San Felipe Pueblo and the Zuni Tribe. My interests in environmental conservation have led me to participate in the youth internship with River Source. I recently graduated from Santa Fe Indian School and I am now pursuing my goals in environmental ecology and restoration. The River […]
My First Internship and Public Presentation
My name is Elka Graves and I am from Tres Piedras, NM. I attend Mesa Vista High School and am soon entering the 10th grade. This summer I worked as an intern for River Source and the experience was great. I learned a lot about ecosystem management. I first learned about this opportunity during a […]
The Unknown Side of Nature
Hello, my name is Catrina Garcia and I experienced a lot at this internship with River Source. I learned how to use mapping and learned how to identify plants. Like which ones were noxious weeds. Like musk, bull thistle, and chicory. The main noxious weeds we saw were thistle. The way we identified plants was […]
Problem Solving in the Upper Chama SWCD
Hello, my name is Robert Esquibel. I go to school at Pecos Connections Academy and I’m in 9th grade. I worked for the Upper Chama Soil and Water Conservation District and River Source this summer. They took us to a lot of different places, taught us about plants and we learned how to identify them. […]
The Future of Natural Resource Monitoring
Hi my name is Anashay Esquibel. I am a freshman at the Pecos Connections Academy. I am an intern here at the Upper Chama SWCD and River Source. My job description includes taking coordinates, identifying noxious weeds, and giving recommendations and solutions for landowner/land managers’ noxious weed problems. The responsibilities I received when I became […]
Noxious Weeds: Growing as a Field Scientist
I’m Alexia Garcia and here is what I learned. We identified plants like the Musk thistles, Canada thistles and other plants. The majority of the landowners up north had a lot of thistles; the main thistles that we spotted was Canada thistles, bull thistles and musk thistles. The internship was very fun and interesting. I […]
