CONSERVATION
In the past 20 years, we have worked with the Village to secure more than $10M in funding for open spaces.
The Agri-Nature Center
We acquired a portion of the Anderson Vineyard on Rio Grande Boulevard, which is now the home of the Larry P Abraham Agri-Nature Center. Here, we sponsored a grant for a seasonal worker and provided a stipend for the the Village’s “Creating Our Agri-Future” initiatives with the Center.
Preserving Open Space
We were instrumental in the Village’s purchase of the land for Edgewood Park at Osuna and Edgewood Drive, which is the Village’s only open space east of Fourth Street. We also helped purchase the land on Rio Grande Boulevard north of Paseo Del Norte. For more about what FOLR has accomplished, please see our About page.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. — John Muir