What We’ve Done
In the past 25 years, we’ve worked with the Village to secure more than $18M in funding for open spaces.
We also won our lawsuit against the Village’s unlawful approvals – circumventing resident review – of Palindrome’s plans in violation of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act.
We led the effort that raised $8 Million for open space purchases.
Thank You! The bond passed with 82% of the vote!
Friends of Los Ranchos celebrating the overwhelming passage of the property tax bond for Open Space (photo credit: Larry P. Abraham)
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.
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.
Historical Information
Links to past media stories, calls to action, obsolete pages and more.
Media (2005- )
Village Vision Ads (2023-5)
Call for Votes (2023)
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