Taproot Collaborative

Great to have the San Carlos Apache Future Farmers of America come and see Taproot's restoration work. Future land managers in the making!

Brrr . . . Taproot staff in the field doing late season planning for the next spring and forest restoration site. Many thanks to the National Forest Foundation for supporting the Pinaleno Sacred Springs Restoration Project.

Taproot's Sacred Springs Project is a multi-year plan to restore springs and watersheds in the Pinaleno Mountains - a precious desert sky island of singular biodiversity and immense cultural importance. Thanks to funding from the National Forest Foundation, Taproot is conducting pre-mplementation planning for our next site at Grant Hill.

Here crew members assess a massive head-cut just above Big Creek, a high elevation spring that once served as habitat for the endangered Gila trout.

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August 2024: Crews gathering materials to finish saving Emerald Spring - an endangered biologically rare and cultural significant high-elevation spring atop Mt. Graham. Many thanks to our funders at the Catena Foundation, the US Forest Service and the National forest National Forest Foundation for your support! .

To restore watersheds and forests in the arid sky-island mountain ranges of the southwest, Taproot unites indigenous wisdom with modern science. Here you can see crews employing ancient indigenous water retention designs that use downed logs, rocks and other materials found on site to restore springs. Many thanks to our great funders at the Catena Foundation, US Forest System and the National Forest Foundation. Without you this important work would not happen. .

Taproot Collaborative works to ensure that high elevation springs on Mt. Graham continue to flow for the native peoples and wildlife that depend upon them. Your dontation really helps us with grant funding, as we can leverage your dollars as matching contributions! Thank you for considering a tax-deductible donation to Taproot Collaborative!

Crews working hard at 10,500 feet. There to save Emerald Spring from extinction!