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Remote Restoration Workshop: Beaver Habitat Restoration on the Babocomari River

When:
02/07/2025 - 10:00am

The Babocamari River is a tributary of the San Pedro River, catching preciptation that falls on the Hauchuca Mountains, Canelo Hills and Mustang Mountains. The Babocomari supports Cottonwood Galleries, a riparian habitat consisting of Cotonwoods, Willows, Baccharis, occasional Ash trees and a panoply of understory forbs and shrubs. The Babocomari has been a home to beaver historically and recently. 

River Run Network Restoration Workshop: Willow Harvesting in Tanque Verde for Babocomari River Restoration

When:
01/31/2025 - 9:00am

The Tanque Verde is a verdant intermitent creek running west from the base of the Rincon Mountains East of Tucson. Due to the shallow groundwater table at the headwaters, Cottonwood, Willow and other riparian tree species make this creek their home. In turn, bird, mammal, repitilian and an entrie ecosystem of life has grown along the banks of this water source.

Support Arundo Removal & Trash Pick Up this Saturday

Help us remove the invasive Arundo donax plant to restore natural water flows and native habitats in the Tanque Verde Creek and beyond. Arundo grows quickly and uses up to four times the water of native plants, threatening our desert ecosystem. By volunteering with WMG's River Run Network, you can make a difference in bringing back a healthier, greener riparian forest across the Tucson Basin.

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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