Let's restore the Colorado River Delta

We started a pollinator garden at the Miguel Aleman Restoration Site. For it, we have conducted some community involvement activities, including visits to the Miguel Aleman Restoration Site with the San Luis Rio Colorado communities for volunteers to support the production of native plants. The community helped to build hotels for insects and reforestation with native plants that directly benefit pollinators.

We also conducted a field trip with the Montessori Bilingual School of San Luis Río, Colorado, with the participation of the Principal, two teachers, and 15 students. During this visit, students visited the native plant nurseries and reforested 25 Mexican Palo-Verde (Parkinsonia praecox) and planted California bush sunflower (Encelia californica) trees in the section destined for the Pollinator Garden project.

Then in a group, we followed the interpretative trail to introduce the visitors to native plants and flowers recovered in the restoration project.

In the end, the Montessori group attended the propagation of 50 Desert willows (Chilopsis linearis), a native species that provides pollinators' habitat. Mainly, its pink and purple tubular flowers attract hummingbirds.

These actions with the community will contribute to create the Colorado River Delta Pollinator Garden.

Links:

• Cleanup day at Vado Carranza
• Water flows again!
• Clarita, Pepe, and Willy, three Yuma Ridgway's Rails