Arizona Ecological Restoration Projects
Based out of Arizona, I worked on ecological restoration and public lands projects in collaboration with the National Parks Service & Fish and Wildlife. The work moved through desert, canyon, and high-elevation landscapes where restoration is shaped by heat, dust, erosion, and the ongoing pressures placed on arid ecosystems. Field sites projects included building trails in the Grand Canyon, mapping boundaries line fencing in the Petrified Forest, and habitat restoration, vegetation management, and site repair.
The work was physically grounded and labor intensive, digging, moving stone and soil, rebuilding surfaces, and maintaining access in environments where intervention has to hold against time, weather, and use.
Sites included:
Hermits & the Tanner Trail located below the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest National Park, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, & various backcountry wilderness areas through out Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
