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River Run Network Restoration Workshop: Sabino Canyon Arroyo Rock Dams

When:
12/21/2024 - 9:00am

Spend a Saturday at the beloved Sabino Canyon Visitor Center area! Join us Saturday, December 21 from 9am to 12pm.

At this restoration workshop you’ll learn how to observe the flow of water across the landscape, identify options to address soil erosion issues, and how to stage for and build rock erosion control structures (one rock dams) to heal our desert arroyos. Come help us restore our creeks and have a fun time doing so!

Using a Dry Irrigation Ditch to Restore a Historic Tucson Mesquite Grove

For well over a century, the Corbett Irrigation Ditch carried water from Tanque Verde Creek to the old Fort Lowell neighborhood, where it nourished farmland and helped to sustain a thick forest of native velvet mesquite trees. Now a group of residents, historians and conservationists have launched a campaign to restore the trees and fill the ditch with water again for the first time since it mysteriously ran dry roughly a decade ago.

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