Description of the Project

The Altar Valley Conservation Alliance assisted with the planning and implementation of conservation projects with private landowners under this award. Funds under this award were used to improve and enhance habitat for threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and pollinators. Projects included the Noon Ranch Arroyo Restoration Workshop in April 2019 that installed low-tech erosion control structures, plant native and pollinator specific vegetation to enhance upland and riparian habitats.

The Noon Ranch Arroyo Restoration Workshop was a training workshop for volunteers.  It served as Phase 2 in a continued project using rock left on site from the (Phase 1) activities funded by a 2016 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant. The workshop occurred on two incised drainages with active head-cut erosion. Volunteers were trained and then constructed hand-build rock erosion control structures and sowed native plant seed on and around the structures. Also, volunteers observed construction of machine built rock grade control structures. Machine built rock grade control structures were constructed at a new work site in the next drainage to the south, in which contractor Steve Carson/Rangeland Hands utilized machinery to build rock grade control structures known as filter dams.  For this portion of the work, new rock was imported to the site.