Membership Meetings

Sandia Ranger Station, Tijeras, NM

General membership meetings normally are held at 7:00 pm on the first Tuesday of each month from April to October in the conference room at the Sandia Ranger Station in Tijeras. (No meetings are held November through March.) Meetings include brief reports from the FOSM President, Projects Chair, and Treasurer followed by an informative presentation on a subject pertinent to our mission

The FOSM Vice-President is responsible for arranging speakers for these meetings.

Summaries of previous meetings are available via the dropdown menu above or by clicking on a link at the bottom of this page. Due to the COVID pandemic, no meetings were held in 2020, and all meetings in 2021 and 2022 were held by Zoom. In-person meetings resumed in 2023.

The roster of speakers for our 2024 meetings is presented below. Results from the weighted-choice poll conducted of members of the board of directors in January 2022 continued to be used in choosing speakers, several of whom are fellow FOSM members this year.

  • April 2, 2024 – Sandia Ranger District update and priorities, Crystal Powell and Amanda Rael
  • May 7, 2024 – Talking Talons, John Ross
  • June 4, 2024 – Albatross Counting on Midway Island, Pauline Ho (FOSM member)
  • July 2, 2024 – Climate and Weather, Kerry Jones (FOSM member)
  • August 6, 2024 – NM Forestry Division, Lawrence Crane
  • September 3, 2024 – NM Cross Country Ski Club, Sam Beard (FOSM member)
  • October 1, 2024 – FOSM year-end update and election results, Mike Madden (FOSM member); Sandia Ranger District History, Jeff Young (FOSM member)

Hybrid membership meetings were a challenging and perhaps worthy experiment; however, they required a lot of work, were fraught with technical problems, and created a distraction for in-person participants—all for a small on-line audience. Our 2024 meetings will be in-person only.


Prior-year meetings: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016