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What's New? Help Protect Our Backyard UGWA heads up the Gila River Discovery Trunk Project Tres Alianzas! Collaborative Forest Restoration
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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