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Photo Courtesy of Lorenzo Gutierrez Students at Earth Day Cleanup with collection trailer

Earth Day 2025 in Questa a Success


On Wednesday, April 16, over 60 people—Questa junior and senior high school students, folks from the Village of Questa, LEAP, staff from Taos County solid waste department, and volunteers—all gathered for a community-wide cleanup and beautification effort. The group fanned out across the Questa area, along roadways and at the Questa Municipal Park to pick up trash, remove invasive plant species, and beautify the area

Photo courtesy of Claire Coté 2025 Questa seniors helping with cleanup at Questa Park
Photo Courtesy of Lorenzo Gutierrez Students along roadways at the Earth Day Cleanup, April 16, 2025


Special thanks to the senior students who helped at the Questa Park and to all students who spent their morning beautifying our community. We appreciate you!


Lorenzo Gutierrez, from Taos County solid waste department, kindly hauled away the trash that was collected. He reported that the group picked up 980 lbs of trash!


Students and volunteers took a break and enjoyed a wonderful lunch catered by Erica Apodaca and Joyce Archuleta, at the Questa Youth & Family Center.


Let’s keep the momentum going; if you see trash, pick it up! If you have trash to throw, find a trash can. Together, we can keep our community clean and beautiful!


This year’s Earth Day Cleanup was made possible by collaborations with Santana Santistevan and Questa Junior-Senior High School Honor Society, Taos County, LEAP, the Village of Questa, Localogy, and community volunteers. LEAP’s clean-up and beautification efforts at the Questa Municipal Park was funded by Chevron Grants for Good through the Taos Community Foundation, as well as individual donors. Thank you, all.

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  • Claire holds a Bachelors in Fine Art and Cultural Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (summa cum laude, 2004) and a Masters in Art and Ecology from Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England (distinction, 2008). Claire's anthropological training and global travels inform her work. Her respect for the diversity of planetary ecology and the geo-socio-cultural particularities of Place are the basis for her commitment to environmental and social justice and life-long learning.

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