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Monitoring a long-term vegetation transect in South Hollow (private land) reference area for Dixie NF

What Can You Do?

Volunteer with the Grand Canyon Trust and help us extend our reach and positive influence on the ground. We need your help in 2011 with fencing two new reference areas.

Sagebrush community reference: It is rare to find sagebrush like this, with intact grasses and herbaceous, broad-leaved plants (forbs). This allotment had not been grazed for 7 years (until 2 weeks after this June 18, 200,7 photo; above Left Fork Huntington Creek, Manti-La Sal NF)

Riparian area reference: Beaver Creek flows through Cottonwood Allotment (Fishlake NF), which has not been grazed in more than 30 years. Note multi-age trees, stream shading, well-vegetated banks.

Building on the successes of our Reference Areas Project

The Reference Areas Project is moving the Forest Service toward a more professional, ecological vision for these Colorado Plateau forests, in the heart of south and central Utah.

During 2011, the Trust will be completing several additional reference area MOUs with the Forest Service
We will be measuring vegetation and perhaps pollinator activity on several reference areas and directly comparing the results with similar measurements on comparable national forest lands that are more heavily used.

Click here to volunteer for fencing part of (the interesting) South Hollow reference area in September!