Preserving, protecting, and restoring the Rio Grande bosque since 1994
Save Our Bosque Task Force Board
Jerry Wheeler, Chair
Jerry Wheeler began serving as a board member in January 2019, representing Socorro County who has been a strong partner to SOBTF for years.
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Christie Smith, Secretary & Vice Chair
Christie Smith ended up in Socorro with her significant other for the whole Covid-19 era and retired there in May, 2022. She's active in the Democratic Party, Save Our Bosque Task Force, Socorro Community Players, and the local Episcopal choir. She also enjoys biking, hiking, camping, traveling, and dinner parties. Christie taught Composition, Literature, and Humanities at various colleges in Colorado or 22 years. The focus of her academic study is western American Literature, with a Master’s thesis on Nebraska writer Willa Cather, and her Ph.D. dissertation and subsequent book on turn-of-the-20th-century western writer and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote. She recently has turned her attention to American journalist and writer Sanora Babb, 1907-2005, co-editing the first book of scholarly essays on her and writing a chapter for that text. It’s from the University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
Matt Mitchell, Treasurer
Matthew Mitchell is a native New Mexican who holds a bachelors of science in biology. He has a lifetime passion for training, hunting, and captive breeding of raptors. With his wife Stephanie he has run a successful southwestern jewelry manufacturing business since 1975. Matthew has volunteered with the Save Our Bosque Task Force since 2003 and has served on the board of directors for fifteen years.