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Verde River Partners Restore Nearly 17 Miles of Riparian Habitat Along Fossil Creek

Jan 10, 2025 by David Gressly
Posted in Friends News, Habitat Restoration, Native Plant, VWRC News

Friends of the Verde River, in partnership with the Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition (VWRC) and other key organizations, proudly announces the successful removal of invasive plant species along the nearly 17-mile length of Fossil Creek. This monumental achievement restores the riparian habitat of Fossil Creek, a federally designated Wild and Scenic River and one of […]

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Survey Training

Jul 18, 2019 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Habitat Restoration, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

By Elaine Nichols, Habitat Restoration Coordinator. Thursday afternoon Tracy and I hit the road headed to Patagonia in southeast Arizona for another survey training. Having only been south of Phoenix once, I was excited to see this part of the state and to learn about the Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Throughout the training, we learned about […]

GIS- The Intelligent Nervous System

Jul 17, 2019 by Elaine Nichols
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Interesting Reads, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

ESRI, the leading GIS software provider in the world, provides users with desktop software, online platforms, customizable applications and more. Last week ESRI put on the 39th Annual User Conference (UC) at the San Diego Convention Center from July 8-12. The UC brought together GIS users from across the globe to learn more about how to […]

Willow Flycatcher Survey Training

May 21, 2019 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

The southwestern willow flycatcher is a small perching bird that was federally listed as an endangered species in 1995. These birds breed in densely vegetated riparian areas mostly in Arizona, New Mexico and southern California. They migrate for the winter to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and Northern South America. Parts of the Verde […]

Lower Verde Adventures Part III

Mar 3, 2019 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

“Fountain Grass!” Ben yells the name of the plant species we are hunting, and swiftly darts to the side of the river in his blue ducky. The rest of the crew, not far behind, scrambles to find a spot along the tiny bank, grasping onto willows overhanging the river. After some reorganizing, the cluster of […]

Meet the 2018-2019 Crews

Feb 11, 2019 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

Our restoration crews come from Vets4Hire and AZ Conservation Corp. They are the boots on the ground people doing the habitat restoration projects focusing on the removal of invasive plant species. We just celebrated the end of our 2018-2019 season with a party for the crew at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. During this season […]

Lower Verde Adventures 2018 Part II

Jan 5, 2019 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

by Ben Kowalewski, Habitat Restoration Coordinator TheVerde Watershed Restoration Coalition(commonly referred to as VWRC – pronounced “vee-work”) is a collaborative effort uniting private landowners, organizations, and agencies with a common interest in the health of the Verde River Watershed. Together, VWRC Partners are working to control one of the biggest current threats to the Verde […]

How can Yuma teach us something about the Verde?

Dec 7, 2018 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Native Plant, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

Our Habitat Restoration Manager, Matt Wilson and Field Supervisor, Elaine Nichols attended the Riparian Restoration and Tamarisk Beetle Workshop presented by RiversEdge West in Yuma in late November. The workshop covered the Tamarisk leaf beetle and various aspects of a successful river restoration program. The tamarisk leaf beetle is a biological control that was introduced […]

Lower Verde Adventures 2018

Nov 28, 2018 by Isaac Dudley
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Interesting Reads, Native Plant, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

by Ben Kowalewski, Habitat Restoration Coordinator Part One The morning started off like most others; wanting to stay in bed for five more minutes but knowing it was time to get up, coffee, getting dressed and leaving for work. Except today was not a typical day going to the office, I had a lot of […]

Keeping up with Innovations in GIS

Jul 16, 2018 by Elaine Nichols
Posted in Blog, Friends News, Purdy Verde Blog, VWRC News

Friends of the Verde River has been using Geographic Information System (GIS) software to map important resources as well as invasive plant locations along the Verde since 2011. Currently, our field crews use Samsung Galaxy Tablets along with an app called Collector for ArcGIS to map and monitor invasive plant infestations and treatment areas. The […]

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