Upper Gila Watershed Blog posts
Help Protect Our Backyard
Pulished on December 12, 2009 by: admin
The Gila National Forest is currently working on plans to determine which roads and areas will be open to off-road vehicles (ORVs), and which lands will be protected for quiet recreation, plant and wildlife habitat, and other natural values.
The Gila Watershed
Pulished on December 10, 2009 by: admin
Along the banks of the Gila River, generations of people have settled since ancient times, surviving the desert environment by hunting, farming and ranching in this lush river valley. Creating an ecologically diverse ribbon of life in an otherwise dry landscape, the Gila River also provides sustenance to a rich variety of plants and animals: more than 300 species of birds, several threatened and endangered species, and one of the most intact native fish communities in existence in the Lower Colorado River drainage.
“As a river is born deep inside the earth in springs that gather into streams and join to become a river, so people’s lives gather into families and communities and become part of the river of history.”
- Wilma Dykeman, “The Tall Woman” (2000)
