Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona
Montezuma Well
October 9 & 10, 2004
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Ok team, I’m going to fake a handoff and pass to Greg
Conrad's team is up for the irrigation canal challenge
Aminda,
Sandy, & Cindy cleaning the canal
Ted with his football stance
Daughter (Mandy) & mother (Nancy S.)
working together
Father (Bill) & son (Greg) working the
canal
Conrad & Nancy S.
figuring out how to halt erosion under water gauge
Nancy S. placing rock that will slow
the erosion
What happened to the culvert?
Culvert removal crew Brian, Conrad, & Mike
Irrigation ditch partly completed;
nice clean stretch of ditch
Last shovel of dirt
Conrad’s irrigation ditch crew
Sign platform building 101;
Gail giving her 1 cent worth about soaking rocks
Outer walls of base completed;
Dan completing inside of the platform
1st completed
sign platform by Lou & Dan; 2nd by
by Ian, Dan, & Matt
Marge and Ken removing old fence post
Nancy W. scoping out fence line;
Nancy H. & Laura cutting wire
Fencing debris removed by Marge’s group
Marge’s fence removal crew
Ian & Matt preparing spot for a new
rock bench
Ian sawing branch to make rock moving
easier
Preparing to move rock to prep spot; slow careful process of using rock bars and poles
Now the rock needs to move to the left, inch by
inch; centimeter by centimeter
Rock bench moved into its final resting
spot
Mike’s rock bench moving team - hey
where's the Crime Scene tape?
Gail sweeping; don’t they make handles
for these things?
Aminda & Mike laying out ground cover
with Dan doing the taping
Painting outside of pithouse;
Aminda doing her part
Laurie applying paint to hard to reach
places
Bob
& Nancy W. enjoying
themselves; Randy attacking
wall
Laurie
gets a free dye job from Mike; watch the foot
Marge creating a water trench around a young mesquite;
Laura & Ben staking and
trenching
Field of staked and
trenched mesquites
Released water just as it is about ready to test the water gauge;
erosion preventing rocks didn’t float away
Photography by Michael Baker and Gail Landry.
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