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Amigos Bravos: Because Water Matters

Protecting Rivers, Sustaining Communities

Since 1988

Annual Report 2011

Photo by Susanne V. Schroeder

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Dear Friends of New Mexico’s Wild Rivers,

Amigos Bravos exists because water matters. At birth, the human body is primarily water – nearly 80%. 70% of the earth is covered with water. Amigos Bravos is dedicated to protecting the first by protecting and restoring the second. We restore watershed health, we hold polluters accountable, and we provide assistance and training to groups who are addressing those issues. We also love wild creatures. Over the past several years Amigos Bravos has managed, with our partners, to reintroduce thirty-three river otters into the Rio Grande and its tributaries. We are delighted to report that those otter and their progeny have been sited as far north as Ute Mountain and as far south as Cochiti Lake.

The future of all of our communities, including the wildlife community, depends on clean, abundant, and accessible water. Ensuring that our future includes those waters involves complex issues. Water is over-appropriated in New Mexico. This means that there is more demand than there is supply. The state has been unwilling to make a strong commitment to water conservation planning, and implementation of conserva-tion planning lags even further behind. Current law and practice views water as a commodity that can be bought by the highest bidder. This foretells a future of inequitable distribution of water resources and the drying up our rural wildlife and human communities. Water is also used as a way to transport and discharge contaminated waste, in our toilets as well as in the tailing pipes at mine sites.

Amigos Bravos works with a diverse range of partners to address legacy pollution from uranium, copper, and molybdenum mining throughout the state. In addition, Amigos Bravos continues to work with stakehold-ers to stop the biggest threat to New Mexico’s water – nuclear waste from the Los Alamos National Lab.

In our monthly E-Currents, a bulletin delivered to you by email, we offer practical advise about personal water conservation practices, while we train our organizational eyes on predicted future impacts from climate change. We are working to envision the best possible pathways for resilience in the face of those impacts.

You can read about our many accomplishments over the past two decades by going to www.amigosbravos.org. Our accomplishments signify Amigos Bravos’ commitment, resourcefulness, and staying power in deal-ing with the critical issues facing us all. Thanks to the support we receive from our members and foundations – along with the talent, integrity, sense of humor, and dedication of our staff and board of directors – we get the job done (and have fun while we are at it!).

This organization is your organization. Amigos Bravos and the work we are able to accomplish could not be done without you. As we face new challenges, we invite you to continue to increase your participation. We welcome your volunteer involvement and we need your financial investment to protect and restore New Mexico’s waters. As a dedicated member of Amigos Bravos, you are truly making a difference.

Letter from the President and Executive Director

For the Río –Peggy Nelson, President and

Brian Shields, Executive Director

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THE RIVER TELLS A STORY — THE YEAR IN REVIEWOctober 2010 - September 2011

2011 HIGHLIGHTS

Historic Citizen Lawsuit Against Los Alamos National Lab Mandates Cleanup In one of the most signifi cant victories in our 23-years, Amigos Bravos settled a Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen lawsuit against Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that requires LANL to stop toxic stormwater runoff from reaching the Rio Grande. The settlement mandates cleanup of over 400 legacy waste dumps within fi ve years, and provides re-sources for us and our partners to monitor LANL’s im-plementation of new safeguards and their compliance with the court-ordered CWA settlement. Legal counsel for Amigos Bravos and our partners was provided by the Western Environmental Law Center.

New Mexico Supreme Court Recognizes Amigos Bravos’ Right to Defend

the State’s Waters

In January 2011, the New Mexico Supreme Court gave Amigos Bravos an important victory in our efforts to hold Governor Martinez’s administration account-able to the rule of law. Within hours of taking offi ce, the Martinez administration illegally blocked new safe-guards that protect the air we breath and the water we drink. In quick and dynamic response, Amigos Bravos and a coalition of groups represented by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene. In the Amigos Bravos vs. Martinez decision, the Court determined that the Martinez Administration had abused basic separation of powers principals and mandated that the new greenhouse gas and dairy rules be published in the state register immedi-ately so that they could start to take effect.

In two additional precedent-setting cases, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Amigos Bravos has a right to defend public interests in clean water, thus guaranteeing that right to all citizens and citizen organizations. In response to industry attacks on the environment, the Supreme Court decision gave us the right to intervene in court proceedings to defend at-tacks on new rules approved at the end of 2010. One of those rules sets greenhouse gas emission limits (which the Martinez Administration hopes to overturn), and the other rule designates rivers, streams, and wetlands as “Outstanding National Resource Waters” (ONRWs). Legal counsel for these two cases was provided by the Western Environmental Law Center and EarthJustice.

Additional AchievementsThe Amigos Bravos Strategic Plan consists of three goals:

Restore Watershed Health, Hold Polluters Accountable, and Build a River Protection Movement.

RESTORING WATERSHED HEALTH• Dairy Regulations – Amigos Bravos and our partners successfully ensured that NM’s fi rst dairy industry-specifi c rules aimed at protecting groundwater include the two most important protections: monitoring wells and synthetic liners for manure waste lagoons. The new rules were developed through intense negotiations between the dairy industry, the Martinez Administration, and a coalition of citizen groups• Albuquerque Stormwater – Amigos Bravos was appointed to Albuquerque’s Citizen’s Blue Ribbon Committee – as the environmental representative on the Committee – to help develop recommendations for controlling stormwater runoff. The City’s stormwater program is hopelessly underfunded and understaffed (it has 1.5 full-time staff while comparable cities have 8-15 full-time staff) and polluted runoff from the city is currently being illegally dumped into the Rio Grande• Pharmaceuticals in the Middle Río Grande – We recommended changes to NM’s Solid Waste rule to make it easier for local jurisdictions to administer “take-back” and pharmaceutical disposal programs; we continue to inform the public and public offi cials about the environmental and public health impacts of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds

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• Water Quality Monitoring in the Taos Area – Together with Water Sentinels of Taos, Amigos Bravos continues to gather water quality data in three Taos rivers – the Rio Fernando, Rio Pueblo, and the Rio Hondo – all of which are show-ing evidence of E-coli contamination. The New Mexico Environment Department approved our data and will be devoting resources to cleaning up the impaired waters• Rio Pueblo de Taos Watershed Restoration Plan – With a grant from the New Mexico Environment Department, Amigos Bravos is working with numerous volunteer community members and experts to develop a plan aimed at reducing water temperature and controlling sediment runoff on the Rio Pueblo de Taos • New Mexico Water Policy – Amigos Bravos provided comments, proposed changes, and presented testimony on numerous state water regulatory and planning documents, including the new state Hydrology Protocol, the Statewide Water Quality Management Plan, and regulations governing section 401 state certifi cation of Clean Water Act permits. Many of our proposed policy changes were incorporated into the fi nal documents

HOLDING POLLUTERS ACCOUNTABLE• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – Since settling our citizen lawsuit, Amigos Bravos and its partners continue to watchdog LANL operations and have hired experts to ensure LANL’s compliance with its new discharge permit. In addition, we gathered in-formation on impacts to the Rio Grande after the “Las Conchas” fi re• Molycorp/Chevron Mining – In December 2010, EPA released a Superfund-mandated cleanup plan that will cost an estimated $400-800 million, far more than the fi nancial assurance bond the mine originally posted. We continue to watchdog activities at the mine and fi ght to stop unauthorized discharges and seepage from the tailings facility that is polluting the Red River• Mt Taylor Mine – Working with MASE and the NM Environmental Law Center, Amigos Bravos successfully petitioned for a public hearing on a Standby Permit request for the Mt Taylor uranium mine, but the state’s hearing offi cer blocked all of our expert testimony at the request of the mine operator’s lawyers; we are appealing the resulting decision, which seriously undercuts citizen participation• Public Lands – Every year Amigos Bravos reviews and comments on plans and projects proposed for public lands administered by BLM and the Forest Service. In 2011, we advocated for protecting water resources from off-road vehicles and logging in the upper Red River watershed, provided recommendations for BLM’s Resource Management Plan and ap-pealed two Carson National Forest Travel Management Plans (ie. ATV routes)

BUILDING A RIVERS MOVEMENT FOR THE FUTURE• Youth Water Quality Monitoring – In 2009 and 2010, Amigos Bravos coordinated a water quality monitoring proj-ect with two high schools in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Rio Grande HS incorporated the project into its curriculum across multiple subject areas and in Fall 2011 we provided water quality workshops to 500 students• Southwest Rural Policy Network (SWRPN) – Amigos Bravos has worked with the SWRPN for four years to develop

water-related policies that sustain rural communities. In addition, Amigos Bravos is organizing Clean Water Act and water quality monitoring training in rural com-munity organizations in New Mexico and Arizona• Environmental Alliance of New Mexico (EANM)– Working with the EANM, Amigos Bravos helped block all efforts at environmental and public health rollback in the 2011 Legislature. We also worked with allies and the media to expose efforts to eliminate pro-tections for the public’s health and the health of New Mexico’s watersheds• Clean Water Circuit Rider – Amigos Bravos’ long-running program continues to provide valuable technical and organizational assistance to individuals and communities

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FINANCIAL REPORT FY 2011

Support & RevenueFoundations 179,973Government Contracts 30,418Contributions 67,313Memberships 17,098Appeals 29,135Sales/Events 30,715Fiscal Agent Fees 1,950Interest & Other Income 1,311TOTAL REVENUE 357,913

ExpensesPrograms 268,053General & Administrative 8,880Fundraising 74,570TOTAL EXPENSES 351,503

AssetsNet Assets, end of year 114,588Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets 6,410

YOUR TRUST AND SUPPORTWe at Amigos Bravos deeply appreciate everyone who has contributed to support our efforts and sustain our organization, whether it was through a new or renewed membership, a family fund or foundation grant, a special contribution, or an in-kind donation. We accept these contributions as a sign that you share our vision and mission and believe that we represent a conscientious and effective effort to connect the environmental, social, cultural, and spiritual values that our rivers and waters sustain.

WAYS TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT AMIGOS BRAVOS≈ Annual Memberships and General Donations. Amigos Bravos is a membership-supported organization. We depend on membership dues and donations to carry out our mission. Unrestricted membership donations provide us with the fl exibility to take action on emerging issues.≈ Project-Specifi c Donations. Many individuals and foundations prefer to donate to specifi c causes and campaigns. Ami-gos Bravos welcomes project-specifi c donations.≈ Bequests and Planned Giving. Individuals can support future protection of New Mexico’s rivers by providing a gift through their will or living trust.≈ Capital Reserve Fund. The Capital Reserve Fund is money set aside to ensure that Amigos Bravos can survive cash fl ow shortages in the annual operating budget. It can be accessed only following strict guidelines on when and how funds can be used, such as for payroll or emergency capital outlays. ≈ Amigos Bravos Friends of the Wild Rivers Fund. Amigos Bravos established endowment funds at the New Mexico Community Foundation and the Taos Community Foundation, both of which administer the endowment. Once funded at an ap-propriate level, interest from both endowments will provide supplementary, fl exible funding across Amigos Bravos’ programs and activities.

For information on making a special contribution to Amigos Bravos,please contact our offi ce at (575) 758-3874 or at PO Box 238 • Taos NM 87571

Fiscal Year 2011 (October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011) – Amigos Bravos ended its fi scal year September 30, 2011 with a slight increase in net assets, even though revenues were slightly down. Amigos Bravos is protecting its long-term fi nancial viability through rebuilding its Capital Reserve Fund and the Amigos Bravos Friends of the Wild Rivers Endowment Fund and planned giving campaign, which is housed at the New Mexico Community Foundation and the Taos Community Foundation.

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Board of Directors, FY2011Peggy Nelson, PresidentMichael Coca, Vice PresidentJon Klingel, TreasurerTom Griego, SecretaryDon BustosRupert ChambersMary HumphreySally Wisely

MEMBERSHIP

We at Amigos Bravos deeply appreciate everyone who has contributed to support our efforts and sustain our organization, whether it was through a new or renewed membership, a family fund or foundation grant, a special contribution, or volunteer effort. (Categories are determined by donation amounts within a given fiscal year.) 0

$50,000+Gods & GoddessesNew Mexico Community FoundationTurner Foundation, Inc.

$10,000-$50,000Water LegacyThe DJenne InitiativeAvalon TrustMcCune Charitable FoundationNew Land FoundationRural Supporting OrganizationSanta Fe Community Foundation

$5000-$9999Water MatronsA Charitable TrustAmerican RiversMr. Fred FairNew Cycle FoundationVictoria L. Seale

$2500-$4999Water BenefactorsEarthshine FoundationDave Grusin and Nan NewtonNorcross Wildlife FoundationSulica FundHerbert O. Wolfe FoundationJohn M. Wood, III

$1000-$2499Water AngelsJosh and Cristy CarswellL. Rupert Chambers and Suzanne CovingtonMs. Linda Kemper FairLeo HarrisKerry and Mi-Lai HeubeckMelinda Moffitt and Ann DunlapMs. Peggy NelsonLewis M. Rosenthal and Diana RushingPatricia L. SheehanDelores Spontak and Betsy PfeilStone Forest, Inc.Tides FoundationRoss and Kristin UlibarríNita and Henk Van der WerffDorothy Wells and Gary GriefBarbara Zaring and Stephen Rose

Staff, FY2011Brian Shields, Executive DirectorSawnie Morris, Assistant to the DirectorRachel Conn, Projects DirectorLinda Gomez, Office & Database ManagerCarol Hardison, BookkeeperMichael Jensen, Communications DirectorJulia Pyatt, Raffle for the Rio Outreach CoordinatorBetsy Wolf, Administration and Publications

$500-$999Water GuardiansWilliam and Mary BacchusMs. Sally N. BachoferRuth BelikoveFrederick and Daryl BlackBolene Charitable TrustSanford and Jane Brickner Advised FundJames Brown and Astrid Kordic-BrownMr. William T. BurginRobert ChappellCamille CoatesMs. Vivian A. ComptonDr. Sarah ConnGus Foster StudioMs. Alyce K. FrankKathleen X. GallagherMr. Walter GerstleRobert GontramAnn Griffith AshJana D. GunnellSheila and Michael HannahMerril G. and Emita E. Hastings FoundationMs. Sara HinerLinda HodappDee HomansDouglas JonesLa Montanita Co-op Food MarketLos Rios River Runners, Inc.Emmett and Pauline MarxMs. Annette McClureCaitlin McHughPatricia MunozBruce NormanGrace ParrCharles G. PaulsenBonnie Payne and Roger TobinV.B. and Rini PriceRed River Restoration GroupJean RichardsThomas Roberts and Leah AlbersHugh S. RychenerAl and Mary Anne SanbornPat and Larry SargentJai Saul and Jan CrossEric Unzicker$250-$499Water StewardsWilliam and Mary BacchusMr. Michael Bleakley

Marilyn J. Altenbach and Barry C. Lauesen Rudolfo and Patricia AnayaLizbeth J. and Craig B. AndersonKarina ArmijoCid and Betty Backer Amanda BaileyMichael BarbonEdward and Susan BarengoJay S. and Patty Barkas GregoryTamara BatesMr. Paul BauerUrsula and Barney BerkowitzBlack Mesa Winery, LLCBob and Sara BlairThomas and Anne BlogTara BloydBob and Judy Blundell

Ms. Candace M. BoulayJay Bush and Peggy Rudberg Cid’s Food MarketMelissa EppleLise GoettMs. Arifa B. GoodmanElizabeth L. GreenleeJohn and Margaret HamiltonMerrill G. and Emita E. Hastings FoundationMs. Sara HinerJohn KosanovichVirginia MacloviaSally Mayer and Art ClarkSusan MollerVirginia Mudd and Clifford BurkePatricia MunozDennis and Gertrude O’TooleWilliam and Kit OwenWes Patterson and Stacy QuinnJohn Pittenger and Karen YoriMs. Martha QuintanaMs. Carol RaymondRobert E. ReinkeMr. Mark and Jocelma RendlemanMr. Richmond and Nancy Mayo-SmithMark Rudd and Maria PainterSanta Fe Garden Club Jai Saul and Jan CrossWilson and Jenna ScanlanLaurie M. SherwoodEric UnzickerPunya UpadhyayaJerry and Jeanie Wigdortz

$100-$249Water Advocates

Nancy and James BourgJuliana BrennerCatherine Crockett BrownWilliam M. and Lisa Brown, IIISusan BucklinMartha Burk and Ralph EstesJanet P. BursteinArt Burton and Barbara L. TurnerSally ButlerKate CasselmanTyler CasselmanClare Castiglia and Lawrence ShoreFrankie ChamberlainClaireWorks GalleryFrederick and Elizabeth ClemCathy Cockrell and Joanne Connelly A.T. and Cinda ColeBonnie CooperDennis Cooper and Adelaide M. CollinsCottam’s Rio Grande River TripsWalter B. CoxRobert and Lori CrouchRobert C. and Carol D. CuddDWH Architects, Inc.Les and Eudice DalyCharles and Helen DavisEdwin and Sue-Ellen DebeersMr. Jerome de BontinStephanie DeckerRoy and Joan Dehart-BlazHolly DifaniBob and Isabella DraperDr. James and Julie DrennanMr. Fred C. DurhamLauren EarlesGeorge EdwardsMartha EganEmbudo Dental CareDr. Del A. EndresKen Eskebach and Molly NiemanDick and Susan EvansDr. Janice E. EvansJorge Johnson FariasDavid and Carol FarmerJane FarmerLinda Federico-DeGeestMs. Cidney L. FeeDonald R. FennemaKate and Chris Ferlic/StanicDoris FinneyRichard and Naomi FiskeMartha FlandersMike FloodChristina FloydRoss Frank and Carina ChiangKathryn Fraser and Andrew HeittAanya Adler FriessMs. Vickie GabinMr. James GaleMichael Gallagher and Elizabeth StevensKen Gallard PhotographicsStephen Gates and Perihan SheardRobin J. GauppDixie M. GillettePeter William Gilroy

Nancy and John GlasgowMichael Gold and Margaret LiebermanJoel GoldblattWilliam and Connie GreenPeter and Melissa GreenbergGroup3 Development, LLCMs. Leigh GustersonJohn HallDr. Charles and Lois HammerJack W. and Marta HandeyMr. D. Eric HannumMs. Joan HarveyMr. David HedrickMerritt R. HelfferichDr. David S. HenkelHenry ArchitectsLois HerrmannJames and Carol HigmanAmos HockmeyerDave HollandAnita HoltzJohn C. HorningJoyce HospodarTodd Hotchkiss and Kathy ArakiMadeleine HurdJP Professional Services, Inc.Doug JeffordsSarah and Scott JenkinsKristen Johnson and James JablonskiMariel Margery JohnsonKurt JorgensenThomas and Suzy KaneKaufman Construction, Inc.Ann P. KaufmanStephen and Alice KeilDiana KelleherFridolf and Linda KellerupDonald and Diane KellySteven and Jean KeninRory and Karen KenwardCharles and Catherine KinneyRobert D. KitzmanJon and Marlene KlingelLouise Klok and Dean GullixsonStorma KnightPeter and Alisa KolshornBeth and Tom Krieger-FritschPatrick LarkinRobin LaughlinStephen Lecuyer and Joan O’ConnellRobert and Margaret G. Leeson, Jr.Ben and Melinda LevinEllen J. Levy and Bill ClaybaughVirginia LevyBrian and Yvonne LewisWendy Lewis and James GouldCarlie LinesHarry and Elizabeth LinnemanMs. Judith LockwoodJohn G. Loges and Lori Remedio-LogesMichael and Joan LoggheRobert L. LuceroAlston C. LundgrenMr. Crawford MacCallumVishu and Nancy Laupheimer MageeMolly Magnuson and Curtis ThomsonSteve and Jackie MahanTerrie MangatKenneth Margolis and Rosalie BrandonDan MariansMs. Elizabeth MartinezRobyn McCullochMs. Susan McGreevyDoug MeiklejohnMetric MotorsStephen and Carrie MillerLucy Moore

Volunteers & Interns

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Special thanks to Louise Sarezky & Hoodie Beitz

of Custom Graphics, Inc. for the design of this report.

Ms. Cathy L. MorinMs. Judy K. MosherJohn Moulton and Kiva Duckworth-MoultonAllison J. MullerJean and Christopher MusteRobert and Shirley MyersGunther and Kandace NachtrabGinto and Deborah NaujokasJames and Susan NeidhartMaudie NielsenDavid and Judy NydesSusan and Jim OberlanderMs. Adrian OktenbergLawrence O. OsenJohn and Suzanne OtterRichard and Jane PadbergParadise Power CompanyDr. Stuart and Janice PasterRichard L. Patnaude, MATim W. PerezRoger and Marie PetersonLinda PieferMarcy PiersolTeresa PisañoCoral PitkinMr. John T. PitlakTom PodleskiRonald PolichnowskiCarl and Barbara PoppPositive Energy, Inc.Albert Ramon and Robin PerezRancho Arriba Bed & BreakfastPolly Raye and William ChristmasRed Tail Surveying, Inc.Barbara A. RiedlB. C. RimbeauxRudolfo J. Rioss, IIDave and Teena RobinsonJohn and Rebecca Romero RaineyWinter RossDr. Richard and Annette RubinSteven and Sandra RudyWinifred M. RuskDavid M. SalmanMaria SamoraJenny SanbornMargie SanfordChristine SargentLawrence H. Schreiber, M.D. and Catherine S. StrisikJessica SchwarzenbachMr. Albert SimmsSarah Sisk and Alan HamiltonDewece Smith and James AblesNick and Margaret SmithNancy Rae StappStrell DesignMr. Robert TangoraTaos NetTen Thousand WavesKenneth and Janet ThatMs. Vivian L. ThompsonNorman E. ToddTeresa and Greg TomashotPete and Hortencia TorresJames and Julianne TurnerDona J. UpsonKarlis VicepsVideo CasaLinda M. Vigil LopezDori VinellaKatie and Logan WannamakerJames WardMike and Sandra Wasko-FloodAndy and Sally WasowskiCarol E. WeaverFlorence M. WeinbergMary Whitcomb Living TrustSarah and Steve WilderSally WiselyRomany Wood and Carl Rosenberg

Douglas and Ann WolfKeith WoloshunZeke’s Auto Supply and Machine ShopZia VineyardsR. ZibartHenry and Patricia Ziegele

$1-$99Friends of New Mexico WatersApril M. AbbottMs. Marie AbsalonMr. William B. AcheffWilliam AdkisonDr. Mercedes AgoginoEric and Kathryn AlbrechtWiz and Kika AllredEric AmesChilton and Judy AndersonMs. Elizabeth S. AndersonAnonymous DonorsJ. Amber ArcherSu Anne Armstrong and Ted HopkinsMadelline AronSidney and Shirley R. AshLani AsherSarah BackusClifton BainAvelina Bardwell, MDJan BartelstoneJerry Sue BassalleckDaniel and Rose BauhsLouise A. BaumMr. Joe BeckerCarolyn Clark BeedleMs. Lisa BemisSusan BentonBarbara BergerSusan B. BermanDr. Samuel A. Berne and Susan E. DrobeckS. Elizabeth Birnbaum and Dave KohlsKevin BixbyBlack Diamond ExpressoKaren BlackmoreMickey and Ann BlakeChris and Kelly BlazEvan and Jackie BlishDiane and Stuart BloomTherese BocklageGary BommelaereMike and Hillary BonnerClaudia BorchertDiana BoydJay BraunEleanor BravoDon BrokmeyerDennis BrooksBarbara BrownGeraldine Brown DBA Crystal Clean Cleaning ServiceElizabeth BrownellMr. Boris BrutonVictoria BuckinghamHope and James BuechlerSteve BuendingChris and Diane BuetheMs. Kathleen BurgWilliam C. BurlingameMs. Virginia B. BurrisBusiness TransitionsPeter CallanChristopher and Carol CalvertDoug CampChris CampbellCarl CannedyMary Jo CareyMs. Shirley CarneyPatrick and Barbara CarrLawrence CarreonDebra CarrollAndrea CastellanosCharles and Elladean ChambersGeorge and Susan ChambersPeter and Elizabeth ChestnutElizabeth ChimentLeslie ClarkJonathan and Suzanne ClarkeMs. Julia Ruth ClausAhad Frank Cobb & Maryrose Ghammachi-BennetMr. Michael CocaTom and Amy CoenMs. Diane CokerMr. Kenneth Alan CollinsMr. Patrick ColvinLeah ConnDavid and Sonya Luz ConstanzaMr. Douglas ConwellGary CookMr. Bob CooleyMr. Paul and Charlotte CoopersteinMark Cowan and Raquel MoncadaSteve and Nancy CrochetCharles C. Crooks

Don B Crowell and Tom SandlinScott CrowlCruz Alta Plaza, LtdRobin Cunningham Myers, LMT, CHDavid and Susan DaneyMs. Margaret E. DavidsonMs. Dana DavisRobert and Clarice DaySusanna de FallaJames and Susan DeanMs. Karen DenisonRobert and Beth DetwilerMs. Katherine “Wells” DienesNancy Sue DimitDimond MortgagePatrick and Thea DolanMs. Patricia R. DonovanJohn and Linda DressmanMr. Paul and Christine DrumrightBrian DrypolcherKat Duff and Kathleen BrennanJeannie DunhamMr. Fred C. DurhamThaddeus S. and Jenni DymanKathleen EagletonAlvin ElliottMerlin Emrys and Diana LightmoonErnest G. EndesDavid EnglishJames C. FarisStephen and Judy FarkashMaria FellinMarjorie FelserNorman B. FergusonFine Tuning MusicKristina G. FisherCassandre and Eric FitzgeraldMichael and Kathleen FitzgeraldMary I. FlahertyPaul and Dawn FleischerGlenda FletcherMary Theresa FloersheimFloramaniaJames and Elizabeth FloresMr. Gregory S. ForbesRob and Jennifer ForbesSharron FosterAnita and Alan FrankMartha FredeEvan FreirichDiane FriedmanJustin and Linda FriedmanCandace FrostensonClark FunkMarianne and Ronald FurediJanet GabrielSusan Q. GallaherBennie and Mary GarciaCharles and Claudette GarciaRalph W. GarciaMeredith Mason Garcia and Richard HarlanPercyne Gardner and Kim KirkpatrickIlse and David GayRobert and Linda GazaMs. Sheila GershenJerome GinsburgKathy Glaser-Block and Jon BlockDiane GledhillMs. Peggy Cook GodfreyBarbara GoedeVeronica GolosAllison K. GomezAnne B. GonzalesDina GonzalesSteven and Lois GoodmanThomas and Sylvia GormanWilliam G. GranthamAlicia Graves and Daniel SwayneJohn L. GrayKrystine GrazianMs. Phaedra GreenwoodGeorge and Dorothy GrossmanPatricia Grossman and Vicki MitchellMr. Ronald GuidottiTerence M. Gurley, Esq.Janay A. HaasPeter Hagen and Lindsay FaulknerDr. Charles and Lois HammerJames E. HammerbergSteven Hamp and Sharon StarkeyTyler and Patty HanniganAnna HansenWilliam and Linda HardyJean and Robert HarrisonMs. Stephanie HarrisonMartha E. HeardNancy M. HerrickDirk and Lucy HerrmanMadeleine M. HerrmannStephen and Regina HessMr. and Mrs. Robert A HilkoBarbara HillJeffrey and Phyllis HillsVera HilsenrathJoanne A. HiltonHirschi InvestmentsClaudia HochbergMary C. HockettSonia C. HodsonLinda and John Holland

Jerry and Lisa HolubecElizabeth HooblerJeff HoodWilliam and Marilyn HoppingMs. Elaine Anne HounsellShawn HowardMs. Maureen E. HowlesMr. Donald W. HurstEric H. HurstWilliam Hutchinson and Meg HuchmannDr. Milton S. JacobsMark S. JaffeRosemary JamesSandra JamesChrys and Susan JaschkeLynda M. Jasper-VogelAnne JefferyInger JirbyEldon and Rosina JohnsonDr. Laurance JohnstonMs. Mary L.R. JohnsonJolie JonesLlewellyn and Jean JonesRichard and Ella JonesEmily Lynn JoyceW. Denis and Marjorie JungeWendy M. KaggerudMark KalinBernard and Judith KaplanMs. Anna KatherineMs. Mary P. KatzLeonard S. KatzDavid KaufmanMs. Nikki KayserMs. Susan KazmierskiRoberta KingWilliam and Lynn KnightMs. Mary R. KnudsenEduardo S. KrasilovskyKrispinsky DentalErich KuerschnerMr. Randall LaGroEnrique and Carlota LamadridLyle and Jaclyn LaneClifford K. LarsenMichael J. LaughlinMr. Robert A. LawrenceRobert and Fran E. LawsonLeaping Lizards, Ltd.Bill Legrand and Kenya PaleyKaren Leroy and Robert AbromavageBen and Melinda LevinKatharine and Asher LevinSusan B. LimeThomas LincolnPaul O. LindbergTodd LindblomMs. Lucy R. LippardBethal M. LittleMichelle LocherRoss Lockridge and Ann MurrayRonald and Ellen LoehmanJ. G. LoehrJohn Roger LoganAndrew Leo LopezFloyd W. Lopez, P.A.Rose Marie LopezJuliana and Ted LoweHelen V. LowryThomas LuebbenJudy Macfarlane and Allen KaplanAndra and Ben MaddoxLilis and Bintoro MaederDr. Linda MalmRobert and Joan MaloneMarian MandellJohn MangimeliMario P. ManzoGregg and Molly MartinMary Ann Matheson and Cornelius DunnValerie Martinez and Paul ResnickSabrina MaxwellMr. Dominique MazeaudMr. and Mrs. James W. McBeePat McCabeMs. Susann McCarthyR.C. McCartyDr. Strider McCashAlice McClelland and John IrwinCharles and Shannon McCoy-HayesGrady and Joan McCulloughSue McDowellMr. James A. McGrathDaniel McGuire and Pat MedvickWilliam and Alice McIntyreRobert and Deanna McMainBonnie McMannusGray MercerLeonora P. MidgleyGaia MikaMs. Betsy MillardBryan M. and Marie MillerCharlotte B. MinterLarry D. and Rosalita MitchellMoby Dickens BookshopCaroline MonacoMs. Carey C. MooreThomas N. and Mary K. Moore-FlemingMr. Robert B. MorrisMs. Betsy J. MorrisonMs. Linda Moscarella

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VISIONWe have a vision of New Mexico’s rivers and streams running so clear and clean that you can bend a knee to the water, cup your hands and drink without fear. Realizing this vision – which was a reality in northern New Mexico only one lifetime ago – requires the wisdom, knowledge and participation of all New Mexi-cans in the effort to address social and political pressures poisoning our waters.

MISSIONIt is Amigos Bravos’ mission to return New Mexico’s rivers and the Río Grande watershed to drinkable quality wherever possible and to contact quality everywhere else; to see that natural fl ows are maintained and where those fl ows have been disrupted by human intervention to see that they are regulated to protect and to reclaim the river ecosystem by approximating natural fl ows; to preserve and restore the native ripar-ian and riverine biodiversity; to support the environmentally sound and sustainable traditional ways of life of indigenous cultures; and to ensure that environmental justice and social justice go hand-in-hand.

Amigos Bravos: Because Water Matters

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