The mission of the La Cienega Valley Citizens for Environmental Safeguards (CES) is to educate, organize and implement community grassroots committees and groups to take action that protects our environment, watershed and cultural landscape. We work to fulfill the public interest and welfare, as a conservation organization whose mission it is, also to conserve imperiled watershed both in water quantity and quality issues, habitat, native species and their threatened habitat.



This mission has evolved to include the oversight of water quality issues pending from the contaminants in particular from Los Alamos National Laboratory, which our community is downwind and downstream. CES is working in coalition with other small grassroots organizations to stop the military proliferation of the nuclear weapons and mixed waste dumpsites. Consistent with our mission CES has formed committee groups, which represent different aspects of the issues facing our community.



These resident/community committees' acts to protect the cultural resources and the public welfare interests in land use issues that affect our traditional and historic communities. Active public participation in this process fulfills our

public educational goals to our local residents, community supporters and the general public in the process. In the interest of the public welfare, CES's goal is to protect information and the public input process on environmental issues that would be useful to the preservation of watersheds within the state of New Mexico and elsewhere.