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 3 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!

 

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Local Trainings & Other Programs » Budding Botanists : Spring Stewards

Reference Area Characterization - Tasha Spring: August 5-8, 2010

Overview

HRV springs assement trip in 2009

Southwest Utah's Fishlake, Dixie, and Manti-La Sal National Forests are threatened by a multitude of human impacts. They are ideal areas for restoring critical wildlife habitats and corridors. We are actively working with the Forest Service and conservation organizations to implement new management strategies that emphasize plant and animal diversity and health.

This is a 2-year project to identify potential "standard setting" reference areas.   We will be describing the plants and favorable conditions (for example, abundant pollinators) at each site, as well as photographing and mapping them.

Contact Andrew Mount for more information about this project.

Apply to volunteer on the Colorado Plateau

Itinerary

Day 1 2 pm: Meet in front of Fremont River Ranger District Office in Loa, UT. Drive to work site (above Fish Lake along Sevenmile Creek) and set up camp.  Project orientation, dinner and relaxation.
Day 2 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. Backpack 6 miles and 2,200 feet up a trail to Tasha Spring. Set up camp and start plant community mapping. (The backpack is necessary unless the four wheel drive road up to the spring is passable.) Return to camp for dinner and relaxation. Sleep under the stars.
Day 3 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. Continue plant community mapping and establish transects for detailed community description and pollinator/floral visitor data. Hike back down to original camp site for dinner and relaxation. Sleep under the stars.
Day 4 Wake early for breakfast and coffee. Finish any plant identification, assemble data sheets, photos, etc. Depart work site between noon and 1 pm, returning to Loa, UT by mid-to-late afternoon.

 


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