<font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">We would like to invite all TU members and friends to a series of public meeting on the Valles Caldera. T</font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="2">
he Valles Caldera Trust is seeking the public's help in developing a new long-term visitor access and use management plan. </font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="2">
The Trust wants the public's ideas
about visitor capacity of the Preserve, recreation and education
programs offered to the public, and the types of facilities and
infrastructure—such as roads, trails and buildings—needed to support
public visitation and visitor programs. <br><br>Truchas TU and </font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">TU
National </font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">would like to develop a possible collaboration with the Valles Caldera to reintroduce native Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (RGCT) into two select
drainages in the VCNP without the use of piscicides.<br><br>We invite you to attend one or more of these meetings and to discuss TUs perspective on </font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">
Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout introduction.<br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The Valles Caldera Public Meetings are:</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"></font><br><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<font size="2">1. July 31, 2007 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Trust offices in Jemez <br>Springs, New Mexico (18161 State Highway 4)</font>
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<font size="2">2. August 2, 2007 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Cities of Gold Hotel <br>Conference Center in the Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico (10-A Cities of Gold <br>Rd., 15 miles north of Santa Fe)</font>
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<font size="2">3. August 14, 2007 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Student Center of the <br>University of New Mexico-Los Alamos in Los Alamos, New Mexico (4000 <br>University Drive)</font>
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<font size="2">4. August 16, 2007 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rio <br>Rancho, New Mexico (1771 Rio Rancho Blvd.)</font>
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<font size="2">The public is invited to come to the meetings anytime between 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM. The workshop discussions will take place at 5:00 PM and 6:30 PM. More detailed information, including the <font color="#000000">
materials presented at the meetings, will be continually updated on the Trust's website at </font></font><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><u><a href="http://www.vallescaldera.gov/">www.vallescaldera.gov</a></u></font><font size="2">
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<font size="2"><font color="#000000">The public can submit comments directly during the meetings, through the Trust's website (</font></font><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><u><a href="http://www.vallescaldera.gov/">www.vallescaldera.gov
</a></u></font><font size="2"><font color="#000000">), by email to Marie Rodriguez (</font><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:mrodriguez@vallescaldera.gov">mrodriguez@vallescaldera.gov</a></font><font color="#000000">), or by letter to Valles Caldera Trust,
P.O. Box</font></font>
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<font size="2">359, Jemez Springs, NM 87025. All comments should be received at Trust offices by September 21, 2007. </font>
</p><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Please also contact Bob O'Connor (
</span></font><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><a href="mailto:Roboconnor@aol.com">Roboconnor@aol.com</a>) </span><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
or Truchas TU is you would like to participate in the meetings to discuss TU's perspective on RGCT reintroduction.<br></span></font><br><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Thank you,</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Truchas TU
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