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Glen Canyon
Lees Ferry, located in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona, serves as the initiation point for more than 1,000 river trips down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon per year. This high-profile site was comprised of a jungle of thick tamarisk that made the area inaccessible to visitors and provided low-quality habitat for wildlife. In order to enhance this site, Fred Phillips Consulting partnered with Grand Canyon Wildlands Council to initiate this 16-acre riparian and upland revegetation project. FPC took the lead in preparing planning for the removal of non-native species, conducting the site and soil analysis, design of the native plant revegetation and irrigation infrastructure and conducting the project site management. Currently, the native riparian and upland habitat is flourishing with positive growth and natural recruitment. Also, a portion of the area is open and available for camping. Bird monitoring at the site has indicated that the bird diversity doubled in the two years since the restoration. FPC also completed a revegetation master plan for the Colorado River corridor through Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and secured more than $200,000 in grant funding for a pilot revegetation project in this area.