Annie Stencil Student Conservation Association Project Leader Saguaro National Park 3693 South Old Spanish Trail Tucson, Arizona 85730 Start 1/10/2011 End 10/14/2011 (208) 608 6320 astencil@thesca.org
Adios, Coronado National Memorial. Hasta que nos volvamos a encontrar...
Goodbye, Coronado National Memorial. Until we meet again...
We just finished up our last week of work at Coronado National Memorial. As a whole, the team flush-cut and limbed 80 percent of the trees and shrubs surrounding a 160 acre prescribed burn unit. Pretty good for a crew of six with little to no fire experience! The vegetation consisted of mostly Arizona White Oak (Quercus arizonica), Manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp), and Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa).
Although we will miss Coronado (our sweet government housing, the manzanita, oak, alligator juniper, agave, yucca, sotol and grassland landscape, the vultures, and the proximity to Mexico), we are excited to move on to our next destination; Fort Bowie National Historic Site!
Because I forgot the team camera this week (my bad), we only have a few pictures that we were able to take with Josh's camera, which only turned on long enough to take a single picture and then pooped out on us. The Law Enforcement in the park were kind enough to take us down to the border wall, to see what it looked like close-up. From far away, it looks tiny. But from two feet away, it's a whole nother story...
