• Shoofly Pipe Rail Project Update
    May 24, 2023

    Patti Fenner

    <strong>Shoofly Pipe Rail Project Update</strong>

    Our first major fundraising effort is finally paying off and we are well on our way to having a vehicle barrier around the parking lot at the Shoofly Village Ruin interpretive site north of Payson. ...

  • Cave Creek Trails Maintenance Volunteer Workday
    April 22, 2023

    Susan Sridharan

    Cave Creek Trails Maintenance Volunteer Workday

    Fifteen volunteers spent a beautiful Earth Day helping maintain the Tonto National Forest Cave Creek Trail system near Seven Springs Recreation Area. We closed social trails, cleared brush, and built cairns to mark the trail ...

  • Monarch Joint Venture representatives visit Cave Creek District Milkweed Sites
    March 12, 2023

    Patti Fenner

    Monarch Joint Venture representatives visit Cave Creek District Milkweed Sites

    Monarch Joint Venture (MJV) Board Chair Dana Boyle and Development Coordinator Robert Seilheimer, in Phoenix for the MJV Annual Meeting, toured Cave Creek District milkweed sites on Tuesday, March 7. Visiting from Minnesota and Indiana ...

  • Bullfrog Infestation Control
    January 25, 2023

    Patti Fenner

    The Tonto National Forest is looking for some volunteers to help control an infestation of non-native bullfrogs at an earthen reservoir near Young, AZ. Bullfrogs are native to the eastern US and are a ...

  • Superstition Mountains from Jacobs Crosscut Trail
    December 19, 2022

    Don Pike

    Superstition Mountains from Jacobs Crosscut Trail

    These photos taken 12/18/2022 illustrate the explosive growth of buffel grass in the Western Superstitions. Large patches are well on their way to becoming a monoculture as the buffel grass displaces the native plants.  This ...