Madison Blatton, a senior at Hot Springs High School in New Mexico, describes her SAE working with the Cerro Sol and Water Conservation District, where she collaborates with government agencies and private landowners on conservation projects. Through this experience, she has developed skills in financial management, government policies, and practical conservation techniques like building concrete ditches and pipelines, knowledge she plans to apply to her family ranch. Madison emphasizes how her FFA involvement and SAE have provided her with lifelong skills and motivated her to help other farmers and ranchers while continuing her family's three-generation FFA tradition of natural resource stewardship.
