YOUR NEW NATIONAL MONUMENTS:  Agua Fria | Grand Canyon-Parashant | Ironwood Forest | Sonoran Desert | Vermilion Cliffs

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Get involved!  Learn about and help protect your new national monuments at the following events:

Sat, Oct 21 – Agua Fria National Monument

BLM’s Agua Fria Festival
Horseshoe Ranch & Badger Springs
Wash

  • Assist festival visitors along Badger Springs Wash

 

Nov ?? (tba) – Ironwood Forest National Monument

Near Avra Valley Road

  • Target shooting trash cleanup

 

Nov ?? (tba) – Agua Fria National Monument

Near Bloody Basin Road exit

  • Highway trash cleanup

 

Sat, Nov 18 – Sonoran Desert National Monument

West Butterfield Pass, North Maricopa Mountains

  • Rehabilitation of illegal off-road vehicle impacts
  • General trash cleanup

 

Sat, Dec 2 – Agua Fria National Monument

Horseshoe Ranch allotment

  • Make grazing fences pronghorn friendly

 

Sat, Dec 16 – Sonoran Desert National Monument

East Butterfield Road, North Maricopa Mountains

  • Rehabilitation of illegal off-road vehicle impacts
  • General trash cleanup

 

Sun, Dec 17 – Ironwood Forest National Monument

Waterman Mountains

  • Buffel grass removal

 

Sat, Jan 20 – Sonoran Desert National Monument

Margie’s Cove, North Maricopa Mountains

  • Make livestock water wildlife friendly
  • Rehabilitation of illegal off-road vehicle impacts
  • General trash cleanup

 

Sat, Feb 17 – Sonoran Desert National Monument

East Butterfield Pass, North Maricopa Mountains

  • Rehabilitation of illegal off-road vehicle impacts
  • General trash cleanup

 

Sat, Mar 10 – Sonoran Desert National Monument

Vekol Valley near Table Top Wilderness Area

  • Invasive Weed Removal (Tamarisk/Salt Cedar)
  • General trash cleanup

 

For more information on any of these activities, or to sign up, please contact Scott Jones at 602-254-9330 or scott.jones@sierraclub.org.

 

 

For more information on Arizona's five new national monuments and monument events, contact Scott Jones at (602) 254-9330 or scott.jones@sierraclub.org.


 

 

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