Our Coalition
The Santa Fe Forest Coalition is an all volunteer nonprofit that educates the public, the media and policy makers on critical issues concerning forest and wildlife preservation in New Mexico. Member groups include Wild Watershed, Once a Forest, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Taskforce, La Cueva Guardians, Tree Huggers Santa Fe and others.
Our Directors
| Board of Directors | Officers |
| Sam Hitt | Sam Hitt, President |
| John Horning | John Horning Vice President |
| Michael Stewart | Michael Stewart, Secretary and Treasurer |
John Horning
John is the recently retired Executive Director of WildEarth Guardians and has worked for more than 30 years to protect and restore the wildlife, wild rivers, wild places, and health of the American West.
Michael Stewart
Michael is an organizer of initiatives for environmental protection and restoration. As the founder and long-time executive director of LightHawk, Michael designed and led successful campaigns that permanently cleaned up the largest source of acid rain and arsenic air pollution in the U.S. (the Phelps-Dodge copper smelter in Douglas, AZ – no longer in existence) and protected the 200,000 acre Bladen Nature Reserve in Belize (formerly slated for clear-cut logging), among other projects. He now serves as a coach and counselor to fellow activists and to progressive nonprofits.
Sam Hitt
Sam has been active in conservation issues in the Southwest for nearly 40 years. He founded Elk Mountain Action in the early 1980s to protect old growth forests and in 1989 Forest Guardians (now WildEarth Guardians). He is currently the founder and director of Wild Watershed, a volunteer group working on aquatic conservation in the Southwest. Sam serves as president of the Santa Fe Forest Coalition. Wild Watershed is a member group.