River Restoration

Join our community effort to restore Tanque Verde Creek! We invite people of all ages, diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, beliefs, and many other diverse communities to participate in restoring our heritage of seasonal and year-round water flows. Come work with WMG staff and other River Run Network volunteers in a beautiful riparian area to remove this invasive species and contribute to the restoration of surface flows and the riparian forest. We are working around an area that has recently seen a return of extended, seasonal flows!

Our Arundo Removal Efforts are expanding! We are so excited to start this new initiative, taking Arundo Removal to the next level across Tucson into many of our other creeks and rivers, not just the Tanque Verde Creek.

The Tanque Verde Creek in East Tucson is a beautiful riparian oasis. With seasonal flows lasting much of the year, the area is full of life - plants, animals, and humans! Come along with Lisa Shipek, Executive Director, and Jim Washburne, Arundo Removal Project Manager, to walk through the creek, we might even see flow!

One of the things you’ll learn on this creek walk is that the Tanque Verde Creek - like many of our other creeks - is inhabited by invasive species. WMG has received funding to remove one of these species - Arundo donax (giant reed) from the Tanque Verde.