Hitch 9-Needles Adventures

Work Totals:
13 Water Sources Monitored
49.48 mi. total hiked
22 Vertical Mulch plants
313.26 m2 total area restored
15.98m Long water bar constructed
515 lbs. trash/debris removed
74.23m total length of fenceline removed
3 segments of fence removed

Restoration? Wildcorps did restoration? Yup. And we rocked it, if I do say so myself. Our first hitch of a two-hitch water monitoring project in multiple wildernesses out of the Needles field office began with restoration in the Piute Mountains. We were at a beautiful site called Fenner Spring to start off the hitch. We spent three days there, restoring the area around the spring. Sam and Andrew were super excited to successfully vertical mulch several barrel cacti, and Andrew even managed to vertical mulch an entire yucca plant. After finishing up our work at Fenner Spring, we moved on to the Old Woman Mountains Wilderness, where we began our water monitoring. We split up into two groups each day over the next 3 days in order to maximize the area we could cover and the number of sources we could monitor. Intense hikes, vast landscapes, and awesome creatures were the norm in the Old Womans. We saw horny toads, lizards by the dozen, kit foxes, coyotes, and, last but not least, a BADGER! Although we could see a train from where we were camped, it was not hard to imagine that were alone in our own little world in the wilderness. We all enjoyed the weather, which stayed in the 70s every day, and we are all looking forward to returning back to the Old Womans and exploring the surrounding wildernesses in search for water.