Grand Canyon Trust Volunteers, a program to help restore ecological and archeological resources on eh Colorado Plateau
Grand Canyon Volunteers : Connect, discover, conserve, restore


 

 

General Info

Accommodations

We will be camping in a broad, high-elevation valley for 4 nights.

Gear

You provide: Camping and hiking gear.

We provide: All meals/snacks, cooking equipment, technical training and tools, and travel on roads outside our car camping area.

Suggested Packing List (PDF)

Comments

The National Forests of southern Utah can be challenging environment to live and work in. However, it is also an incredibly beautiful place to be. So bring a camera and contact us if you have any gear needs.

We will be working in riparian areas, so be prepared to get your feet wet and muddy!

 

Volunteer at Kane and Two-Mile Ranches
Volunteer to restore Native American ecological and archeological resources
Help restore riparian habitat along the Paria River canyon

Local Trainings & Other Programs » Budding Botanists : Spring Stewards

Reference Area Characterization - South Hollow: June 23-27, 2010

Overview

HRV springs assement trip in 2009We are fortunate to have connected with a University of Utah biologist (Dennis Bramble) who has been studying his 160 acre property west of Escalante, UT on weekends for 16 years. Now retired, Dennis Bramble, Grand Canyon Trust,  and the Dixie National Forest are establishing his property as a reference area for the Dixie.

This trip will work to create a comprehensive plant list for Mr. Bramble's South Hollow property, and Dennis will be on hand to regale everyone with stories of the 100+ western harvester ant mounds he's tracking, nurse shrubs and voles, porcupine, and the water table that has risen now that the property is grazed only lightly in the fall after plants have seeded.

Contact Andrew Mount for more information about this project.

Apply to volunteer on the Colorado Plateau

Itinerary

Day 1 3 pm: Meet in Escalante , UT at the home of Dennis Bramble (280 West 300 South, Boulder , UT ). Drive to work site and set up camp. Project orientation with the land owner. Dinner and relaxation.
Day 2 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. A full day of reconnaissance work and plant community mapping, with a break for lunch. Return to camp for dinner and relaxation. Sleep under the stars.
Day 3 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. A full day of work (with a break for lunch), establishing and reading plant transects within the reference area and adjacent Dixie National Forest property. Practice and perform "floral visitor/pollinator" transects on reference area and adjacent forest land. Return to camp for dinner and relaxation. Sleep under the stars.
Day 4 Same as day 3.
Day 5 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. Finish floral visitor transects and any plant identification or mapping. Depart work site between noon and 1 pm, returning to Escalante, UT by mid-to-late afternoon.

 


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