4Nature Santa Fe

Nature Based Climate Solutions
Santa Fe County is developing a more climate resilient community by supporting nature-based climate solutions that will ensure the health of our people, places, and water for generations to come. Through collaborative efforts between the County, local organizations, and communities, we can address the threats posed from climate change to more resiliently support and protect our local biodiversity, and habitat health.
The consequences of climate change are already affecting our community through drought and rising temperatures. Through networked climate action stewardship, we can prepare ourselves for the expected shift towards climatic extremes, together. Through a combination of science-based education and action, we can restore healthy soils, and conserve water, all vital ecosystems we depend upon. Click here to learn more about where NM stands.
Join us in implementing nature-based solutions to the changing climate and to empower the community to develop a resiliency to challenges ahead.

Protect
Conserve and Preserve
- Conservation & Preservation of native habitats
- Wildlife
- Rivers & Streams, Wetlands
- Ecotourism/birding/hiking/recreation

Strengthen
Soil Health
- Composting
- Erosion, cover & thermal regulation
- Carbon sequestration
- Fungi and nitrogen fixers

Grow
Biodiversity and Canopy
- Pollinators
- Trees
- Crop covers & rotational grazing
- Agriculture

Water
Harvesting and Irrigation
- Stormwater capture
- Land Contouring
- Infiltration and irrigation
- Water quality