El Paso Master Gardeners the Texas Master Naturalists Trans-Pecos Chapter collaborate to maintain a section of the Transmountain Road under the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Adopt-a-Highway Program.
The groups jointly chair the project and alternate every two years as prime contracting organization with TxDOT.
While the TxDOT contract requires quarterly clean-ups, the El Paso Master Gardeners and Trans-Pecos Master Naturalists have chosen to work every other month on their section of the road.
In 2008, The El Paso Master Gardeners organized all Adopt-a-Highway partners on Transmountain Road – Texas Agrilife Extension Service Master Gardener and Master Naturalist programs; Home Depot – West Side; Franklin Mountain Wilderness Coalition; and the Briseño Family and community volunteers including volunteers from the Sergents Major Academy at Ft. Bliss and environmental science and National Honor Society students from Chapin High School and Franklin High School for an All-Transmountain Road Clean-Up project. The organizations met Oct. 10, and picked up litter on both sides of the nine-mile long road.
TxDot recognized the project with a state award presented to representatives of the El Paso Master Gardeners and Trans-Pecos Master Naturalists on Oct. 30, 2008.
