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Help Protect Our Backyard
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. Find out more here.

UGWA heads up the Gila River Discovery Trunk Project
Two educational trunks explore the natural and cultural values of the Gila River. Find out how to get involved here.

Tres Alianzas!
UGWA partners with the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Sky Islands Alliance for another riparian restoration workshop in the Burros. Volunteers and professional stream restorationists gather each year to rehabilitate a degraded stream, arroyo, or other valuable place. Sign up for our e-mail alerts at right to learn about the next opportunity to give back!

Collaborative Forest Restoration
UGWA is working with the Forest Service and numerous community partners to facilitate the NEPA process on more than 10,000 acres of the Gila National Forest in need of restoration. More...

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)

Summer 2008 Newsletter
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