New Earth Kids: Teens Connect at Ecocamp 3 September 2024 – Host Nan Franzblau heads into the Gila National Forest to visit Ecocamp, a four-day wilderness camp for teenagers hosted by the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance. Campers describe skills they have learned, such as how to build a fire from Read more…
By Donna Stevens For six years, UGWA has been working to eradicate invasive tamarisks (salt cedar) along the Gila River, mostly in the Gila Wilderness, but also downstream. We were fortunate to receive three grants to accomplish this work in 2021. Tamarisks can outcompete native riparian trees and shrubs, create Read more…
By Donna Stevens The Gila River is America’s First Wilderness River, with its headwaters deep in the Gila Wilderness – the nation’s first wilderness. At last, it’s one step closer to being designated a Wild and Scenic River. Both of New Mexico’s federal Senators, Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, Read more…
The ecologically devastating, technically infeasible, and prohibitively expensive Gila River diversion is dead. So now what? Can we just rest easy or move on to another adventure? Well, not just yet. After wasting more than $15 million to study the diversion, there is still roughly $90 million of Arizona Water Read more…