Trigo Canyon reportedly suffered extensive fire damage in
the upper canyon area.
Also, ranchers gated FR 33 about 7 miles from the trailhead.
Sometimes it's open, sometimes it's locked.
currently limited to Encino and Monte Largo.
For more info, contact the Cibola Nat'l Forest office in ABQ.
(noted in books printed after 2008)
the upper canyon area.
Also, ranchers gated FR 33 about 7 miles from the trailhead.
Sometimes it's open, sometimes it's locked.
currently limited to Encino and Monte Largo.
For more info, contact the Cibola Nat'l Forest office in ABQ.
(noted in books printed after 2008)
JFK needs this like another hole in the head:
[JFK Campground, Trigo Canyon, Manzano Wilderness Area]
The place was overrun by cattle, smelled like a feedlot, and all
palatable vegetation had been trampled, eaten, or stripped of
branches. ...
Gone, or at least trampled into dust were the lush shrubbery,
Columbines, Elephant Flowers, Penstemons, Ferns, and even
many of the trees. There were no Pin Cherries, Currants, Rose
Hips or Plums anymore. Gone was the little babbling brook. In
their place were bare dusty ground with barely any vegetation,
and it quite literally stank of death and manure, and swarmed
with flies.
... In late September 2008 I see that there is a new gate across
the access road where it meets the main road (used to be
called Military), a herd of cattle is standing behind it...
The place appears to have been abandoned to the cattleman,
and it is a disgusting shadow of it's former beauty.
Very disappointing. I would greatly like to see this area
managed as part of the Wilderness area it is supposed to
belong to, and not as a feedlot.
[excerpted from city-data]
[JFK Campground, Trigo Canyon, Manzano Wilderness Area]
The place was overrun by cattle, smelled like a feedlot, and all
palatable vegetation had been trampled, eaten, or stripped of
branches. ...
Gone, or at least trampled into dust were the lush shrubbery,
Columbines, Elephant Flowers, Penstemons, Ferns, and even
many of the trees. There were no Pin Cherries, Currants, Rose
Hips or Plums anymore. Gone was the little babbling brook. In
their place were bare dusty ground with barely any vegetation,
and it quite literally stank of death and manure, and swarmed
with flies.
... In late September 2008 I see that there is a new gate across
the access road where it meets the main road (used to be
called Military), a herd of cattle is standing behind it...
The place appears to have been abandoned to the cattleman,
and it is a disgusting shadow of it's former beauty.
Very disappointing. I would greatly like to see this area
managed as part of the Wilderness area it is supposed to
belong to, and not as a feedlot.
[excerpted from city-data]
