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Don Pike

The ID of this plant was questioned during the Dec. 10 Removal Event.  It is Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii) and is in the same plant family as potatoes and tomatoes.  All parts of the plant ...

Don Pike

During the event of 12/10/22 volunteers covered a large area of the Superstitions between Massacre Grounds and Treasure Loop trails.  Removals had been performed previously in this area and although there were still fountain and ...

Don Pike

A group of high school students and chaperones, volunteers from Exeter, NH, joined the Desert Defenders for a special removal event in the Superstition Mountains.  Leaving from the Massacre Grounds TH, the group hiked up ...

Don Pike

Eleven energetic volunteers removing fountain and buffel grasses in the area of the Siphon Draw trail. Some were new patches of buffelgrass and some were regrowth of fountain grass in a couple of washes.

Patti Fenner

We had a great turnout for the November 19th Milkweed Planting Event on the Cave Creek Ranger District. Twenty-five volunteers from Friends of the Tonto and Sierra Club met at Sears-Kay Ruin to plant 53 ...