One of the graphics we installed at Cleveland Square in downtown El Paso.
by Rick LoBello, Chair
Some of the nicest people you will ever meet love and appreciate the great outdoors. The Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition based in El Paso is one of those groups. If you would like to learn more about our desert region and make some new friends at the same time, connect with us at one of our meetings. We can answer questions and if you want to get involved with helping us there are numerous ways you can share your talent and skills.
One of the projects we would like to improve over time is our habitat certification program. The goal is to encourage people to landscape with native plants to help conserve water and create more habitat for desert neighbors who have been displaced by development projects. Unfortunately El Paso as a city has yet to value the desert enough to want to protect it better. It may cost a little bit more and take some effort, but why not leave the desert soils alone and leave nature as we found it by developing with it rather than against it?
Check out this picture. One of my best friends his wife built this house about five years ago and were very careful to keep the desert intact. It is so refreshing to live in a desert home like this rather than one surrounded by a concrete jungle.
Lechuguilla, creosote bush and desert succulents like cactus, ocotillo and yucca surround my friends home in the desert and he did not have to plant a single one.
We are currently meeting once a month working on improving our organization and a strategic plan. If you would like to learn more and receive a meeting invite contact us.
We meet at various locations in El Paso on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
Enjoy the Chihuahuan Desert.
Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition 