Riperian draw restorationAxle Canyon Ecological Preserve is actively working to restore degraded habitat, especially riparian areas, because numerous wildlife frequent water sources provided by this habitat at our western boundary.
Topographical maps of this area show a spring and likely because that spring was perennial prior to any historical record and over time degraded to a wet-weather spring. For this reason, we placed a stock tank for wildlife close to the travel corridor for those times when the water is not present on the surface. Thanks to a great monsoon season in 2006, we saw water on the surface of the arroyo from October 2006 until December 2007. We constructed several water harvesting structures in the arroyo to restore degraded springs to their original perennial condition. Mulberry Canyon is the main stream with a watershed area of approximately 2300 acres where it exits on the western side of the Preserve at 6000' elevation. Main tributaries are Mulberry Canyon headwaters, Mulberry Tank, and Axle Canyon - numerous small tributary arroyos have their confluence with Mulberry Canyon.
