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In April, our Dedicated Restoration Team removed 1,744 square feet of graffiti from Devil’s Canyon outside of Superior, Arizona. This project was made possible through grant funding from ON Semiconductor, REI Co-op, and Resolution Copper. You can view the entire project HERE.
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Graffiti that could be seen from your vehicle as you drive through the canyon and what you could see when you stopped at all of the pull-off areas east of Queen Creek Tunnel is something we’ve dreamed of removing long before Natural Restorations existed.
This project has been on our graffiti removal bucket list for a long time and we are grateful to the organizations that made this project possible: ON Semiconductor, REI Co-op, and Resolution Copper. Thank you to for helping us remove 1,744 sq ft of graffiti!
Our Dedicated Restoration Team removed 4,660 pounds (2.33 tons) of trash, 12 tires, and 299 square feet of graffiti from Bulldog Canyon OHV Area at Wolverine Pass on the Tonto National Forest - Mesa Ranger District.
Click HERE to view the project photos, including before & afters.
We teamed up The Original MakeUp Eraser & Japonesque to bring a group of volunteers out to the Lower Salt River for a trash cleanup in celebration of Earth Day. They helped us remove 142.19 pounds of trash from the Lower Salt River at Water Users Recreation Area!
Click HERE to view all of the event photos.
In April, we teamed up with our friends from The Sleepy Whale & Odell Brewing Company in celebration of Earth Day. They helped us remove 233.5 pounds of trash from the Lower Salt River!
Click HERE to check out all of the event photos.
Thank you so much to Tim and Kelsey from Dirt Sunrise for meeting up with us to catch up on what we’ve been up to with Natural Restorations, why we founded the organization, and what are plans are for the future. Be sure to check out the interview their YouTube page. And be sure to check out their other videos, they go on amazing overloading adventures all over the world.
Check out a timelapse from Friday's restoration on the Tonto National Forest. We removed an abandoned squatter site that had been abandoned for at least a year.
Thank you so much to everyone at Dumpsters.com for donating the dumpster for this project, we are grateful for your continued support of our restorations! We will share the dumpster weight as soon as we receive the data. We also removed & recycled 2 tires.
Thank you to everyone who helped us restore this site back to its natural beauty and reclaim it for the wildlife and anyone who passes through this part of the desert! This is a perfect example of what 12 people can accomplish when we come together for a positive, common goal!
Thank you to everyone at the Tonto National Forest Service - Mesa Ranger District for their teamwork on this project! Huge shout out to Robin & TJ from the Tonto National Forest Service for coming out to help our team on Friday!
Thank you to the veterans on our Dedicated Restoration Team for your hard work on this project; Justin Ballard, Sean Brooks, Derick Cotten, & Ryan Morin.
Thank you to the volunteers we invited to come out and help us; Brittany, Mariano, Andrew, & Nick! We had so much fun and it meant a lot to Justin & I that you would come out to help us!
We will be sharing photos from this project soon, stay tuned!
April 6th is Arizona Gives Day, a day to invest in Arizona & help support our mission to remove trash and graffiti from outdoor spaces, revitalize natural areas through replanting projects, and enrich the lives of Military Veterans & other community members.⠀
If you are not in a position to make a monetary donation, we would like to ask you to consider giving back to Arizona another way. Go for a walk in your neighborhood to get some fresh air sometime this week, take a trash bag & gloves (grabbers if you have them) & pick up any trash you see along the way. Not only will your neighborhood look better, you will feel great because you made an immediate, visible impact and you may inspire others to do the same. ⠀
We spend a lot of time picking up trash in outdoor recreation & wilderness areas & sometimes overlook our neighborhoods. Take a photo & tag us, we'd love to see you giving back to Arizona. ⠀
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If you would like to make a donation, we would be grateful for your support! You can donate to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization on our website, click HERE.
We’re making April Earth Month!
For the month of April, The Sleepy Whale is donating the proceeds of Sippin’ Pretty draft pours to Natural Restorations to assist us with keeping the great outdoors clean!
Want to take action yourself!? We’re also doing an Instagram giveaway with The Sleepy Whale & Odell Brewing Co.! Get outside and help keep our trails clean! Steps on how to get involved below 😎
• When on your next outdoor adventure, pick up as much trash as you can!
• Take a picture of yourself in nature with your trash collection
• When posting your pic, use the hashtags: #helpkeepitpretty2021 & #makeitpretty2021
We’ll pick 3 winners May 1st! We have some sweet prizes to give out!
Including an Odell Hammock, Pocket Knife, Camping Mug, Natural Restorations’ 40oz Tru Flask, Sleepy Whale shirt & MORE!
Help us protect our beautiful planet! 🌎
Thank you to everyone at The Sleepy Whale & Odell Brewing Co. for your continued support!
Through the month of April, for every purchase of their Camco portable fire pit on their website, they will donate a portion of the sale to Natural Restorations.
We love portable propane fire pits because they help cut down on wildfire danger.
If the wind picks up, just turn it off! Super simple!
Thank you to everyone at AZ Outdoors for your support!
Pick up a fire pit today and help our nonprofit organization, click HERE.
Nicole Corey, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Natural Restorations, recently had the pleasure of joining Neil and Randee for Season 2 Episode 5 of the Arizona State Parks (Super Awesome) Podcast.
Learn how our vision has become a way of life designed to make Arizona a better place for everyone.
In January, our Dedicated Restoration Team resumed work on the Lower Salt River Restoration Project with Program Managers from the EcoCulture team at NAU.
We planted 4,560 trees, including Godding's willow, Freemont cottonwood, Velvet mesquite, Screw Bean mesquite, and Coyote willow in the area between Granite Reef and Phon D Sutton that was impacted by the 2017 Cactus Fire. *Between this project and our first replanting project in November 2020, our Dedicated Restoration Team has planted 10,104 trees!
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You can view additional pictures from this project by clicking HERE. We also launched a Replanting page on our website where you can see all of our replanting projects. Click HERE to view our Replanting page.
Before we get too far into 2021, we would like to take a moment to highlight what we accomplished in 2020 with our Dedicated Restoration Team and volunteers.
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In 2020, Natural Restorations removed 219,552 pounds of trash (109.77 tons), removed and recycled 320 tires, removed 4,674 square feet of graffiti, and planted 5,544 saplings.
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In addition to the results of our 2020 Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation-fund grant administered by Arizona State Parks & Trails that we shared 2 posts back, we worked on several other grant projects in 2020.
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We removed graffiti from the Washington Park Tunnel along the Arizona Trail, Granite Dells in Payson, Blue Wash Trail in Cave Creek, and Blue Point, Fox Tail, & Coon Bluff Recreation Areas on the Lower Salt River thanks to grants from REI. Click HERE to view all of these projects.
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We removed graffiti from the Boulders Loop Trail in Payson, we removed trash from several areas around the Superstition Mountains, and we removed trash and graffiti from Needle Rock Recreation Area though grants from ON Semiconductor. Click HERE to view all of these projects.
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We also launched a Replanting Program in 2020 and planted 5,544 saplings at Lower Salt River in November 2020. Click HERE to view the project.
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We hosted 5 volunteer events between January 2020 & March 2020, including a Base & Meridian Wildlife Area Cleanup on 01/04/20, a Lower Salt River Cleanup with American Rivers & Verizon on 01/16/20, the 11th annual Hewitt Station OHV Area Cleanup on 01/18/20, our Lower Salt River President's Day Weekend Cleanup on 02/15/20, and our Sugar Loaf OHV Area Cleanup on 03/07/20.
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Click HERE to check out our past volunteer events and click HERE to check out our Dedicated Restoration Team projects.
We are excited to share the results of our 2020 Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Fund Grant administered by Arizona State Parks & Trails. Click HERE to check out pictures and additional information.
We removed 184,120 pounds of trash (92.06 tons), 275 tires removed and recycled, and we removed 2,938 square feet of graffiti painted on rocks and boulders in OHV areas across Arizona. Thank you to everyone on our Dedicated Restoration Team, our volunteers, and all of the organizations that helped make this possible!
Through this grant, our Dedicated Restoration Team completed 24 projects in OHV areas across Arizona. Our team removed 164,890 pounds of trash, that's 82.49 tons! We also removed 261 tires and 2,938 square feet of graffiti painted on rocks and boulders in OHV areas. Volunteers also helped us remove 28,620 pounds of trash and 14 tires from Hewitt Station & Sugar Loaf OHV Areas.
Thank you to the Arizona Off-Highway (OHV) Recreation Fund Administered by Arizona State Parks & Trails for awarding this grant to Natural Restorations!
We worked on Arizona State Trust Land, the Tonto National Forest, the Coconino National Forest, the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, and the Prescott National Forest. Thank you to everyone at these land management agencies for supporting our projects!
These projects were also possible due to support from the following organizations: Arizona Toy Pros, Battle Born Offroad, CopperPoint Insurance Companies, Davidson’s Inc., Desert Monsters Tours, EPAZ, Gallery of Guns, ICON Vehicle Dynamics, Illuminated Funds Group, LeBaron & Carroll Insurance, Nitro Gear & Axle, OdySea Aquarium Foundation, REI, ON Semiconductor, Salt River Project, State 48 Overland, Tru Flask, UniSource Energy Services, Victory 4X4, and Yamaha Outdoors.
Arizona Adventure Group recently announced a 31 day Hiking Challenge for March 2021 and they are donating 10% of the proceeds to Natural Restorations!
Registration and all of the challenge details go live on Monday, 2/22/21. For more details head over to their page: https://arizonaadventuregroup.com/pages/hiker-challenge
Thank you to everyone at Arizona Adventure Group for your support of our mission!
THE 12TH ANNUAL FOOTPRINT MATTER TO US & NATURAL RESTORATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP EVENT WILL NOT BE ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2021 DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS. WE ARE WORKING ON RESCHEDULING THE EVENT FOR FEBRUARY OR MARCH AND WILL LET YOU KNOW AS SOON AS WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN PLACE.
We are honored to have our program featured in an article for CleanUp News.
Check out the full story by Meg Carney: https://www.cleanupnews.org/home/natural-resotorations-builds-community-for-military-veterans
