"Each spring WildEarth Guardians' members, supporters and volunteers become
Stream Team Activists by gathering pledges and planting trees for each pledge. Our Stream Team planting days, held throughout New Mexico and Arizona, are a great way to get your hands dirty for the sake of the environment and re-connect to the wild rivers that sustain us all. Each event is a breathtaking display of what can happen when we come together to heal once-degraded waterways. At the beginning of the day, a somewhat barren landscapes lays before us. A few hours later in the afternoon, the area is a forest of newly-planted native trees..."
2009 Stream Team Planting Schedule:
La Jencia Restoration Day
Saturday, March 7, 10am-3pm
Near Socorro, NM
Rio Puerco Tree Planting Days
Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, 10am-3pm
Near Cuba, NM
San Marcos Tree Planting Day
Saturday, April 4, 10am-3pm
Near Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe River Tree Planting Day
Saturday, April 18, 10am-3pm
in Santa Fe, NM
Bluewater Creek Tree Planting Days
Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, 10am-3pm
Near Grants, NM
Conor Flynn first moved to the Southwest to work as a seasonal park ranger at the Petrified Forest National Park and stayed to pursue a graduate degree in Neurobiology at the University of Arizona. But the Southwest had other plans for the incorrigible hiking enthusiast and he soon progressed from volunteering with Sky Island Alliance to full-time conservation work with Wild Earth Guardians. "Conservation biology is much more difficult than neuroscience", says Conor, who now "performs open-heart surgery on the landscape" as a member of WEG's restoration Stream Team. "At the end of the day I'm usually so tired I can barely crawl into my sleeping bag...the drama of restoring the environment is what inspires me; its not easy, but the rewards are very tangible. We're working as hard as we can to save the remaining ecosystems by restoring important-but-degraded habitat. I'd like to thank all the volunteers and donors who make this work possible: everyone has an important part to play in guarding the wild earth."
