Coming Together: In-Person Gatherings Build the Trust Behind the Work
We gather three+ times per year to welcome new partners, check in with each other, and explore novel solutions.
Overview
Relationships are core to the 2-3-2 Partnership. We know that time together creates deeper understanding, promotes honest dialogue, and ignites creative solutions. Each year, the 2-3-2 Partnership gathers three times as a collective whole. Each month, the Executive Committee meets to stay aligned. Each day, 2-3-2 Partners meet over coffee, in forested watersheds, and in local gathering spaces to bring community collaboration to reality.
Our annual meetings are important celebrations and reflections of the work across six million acres, across 100+ organizations, across state lines, the continental divide, and fencelines. They are welcome to anyone. Places where your name is more important than your job title. We meet in person so that you know who is on the other end of the phone when you call them. We meet in person so that place-based community groups, federal agencies, state agencies, tribes, landowners, water users, producers, forest workers, researchers, funders, and anyone else can connect beyond their silos. For we know, that (Re)Connecting Forests, Waters, and People across northern New Mexico and southern Colorado takes all of us.
While annual gatherings bring Partners together, the magic of the 2-3-2 is in each partner's follow-through. It is in partners connecting outside of formal meeting spaces to brainstorm, design, and make projects happen.
Triennial Meetings and Field Tours
The 2-3-2 landscape is expansive and varied. To strengthen our shared understanding of the landscape's forests, waterways, people, and places, we move our triennial full partnership meetings and field tours around northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. At these meetings, we celebrate each other's work toward 2-3-2 goals, navigate shared challenges, and tour local projects, mills, and community stories.
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Meetings rotate around the landscape so that local partners can attend in person. Hybrid participation is offered where internet service allows.
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What began as 12-15 people now brings together 60-100 partners at any given gathering. We host hybrid meetings where internet service allows, and we move the triennial meetings around the large landscape so that local partners can attend in person.
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Legislative Tour
The 2-3-2 Partnership appreciates the bipartisan support of local, county, state, federal, and tribal governments. Legislators play a significant role in creating policies, laws, and funding that promote forest and watershed health. Legislators are always welcome at 2-3-2 events and our focused legislative tours highlight why we do this work and what policies and funding support our success.
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Legislative tours bring elected officials into the field to see the work firsthand and understand the connection between forest health and water security.
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Focused discussions remind legislators that:
Forest health is water infrastructure. Our forests are overstocked and at risk of large-scale high-severity wildfire, and therefore our water is at risk.
Collaboration is the only way to increase the pace of work to address landscape-level challenges like wildfire, pests, and disease. Through collaboration we increase community resilience to fire, increase water security for rural and downstream municipalities, decrease the chance of loss of life and home, and reduce the cost of wildfire suppression and post-fire flooding.
Layered investments protect communities and landscapes because they work across boundaries, increase return on investment for every government dollar spent, and increase firefighter safety.
The 2-3-2 Partnership is demonstrating that working together works, but scaling up requires policy and funding commitments that match the scope of the wildfire and watershed crisis.
Rio Chama Congreso
The Rio Chama Congreso is an annual event hosted by the San Juan-Chama Watershed Partnership. Typically held at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico, each year brings partners from across the Rio Chama Watershed who gather to present and discuss pertinent watershed issues. The San Juan-Chama Watershed Partnership was instrumental in founding the 2-3-2 Partnership, and their leadership continues through the conversations and momentum of the Rio Chama Congreso.
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The Congreso convenes annually at Ghost Ranch, bringing together a wide range of partners to share updates and discuss watershed issues.
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Agua es Vida. Water is Life. The Rio Chama is life. The annual Rio Chama Congreso brings ranchers, acequieros, non-profits, researchers, foresters, water infrastructure managers, boaters, anglers, downstream municipalities, and others together to share yearly updates on forest and watershed health, water capacity, and restoration opportunities, and to foster a shared hope for the wellbeing of the Rio Chama long into the future.