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Spotlighting a volunteer group saving wildlife in Arizona.
Dear Reader,
Dot loves folks who spot a problem and, instead of looking for someone to fix it for them, roll up their sleeves and solve it themselves. Like the Desert Fence Busters in Tucson, Arizona, a volunteer group who saw that wildlife was getting caught in barbed wire fences in the region — fences that had long outlived any usefulness. Collaborating with the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the National Parks Service, the Desert Fence Busters have already removed 95 miles of fences from the Sonoran desert, much of it on public land. “We’ve seen plenty of evidence of animals that have been caught in barbed wire, and it’s a fairly ugly way to die,” volunteer Tom Hannigan said to a reporter. “So we’re trying to promote wildlife connectivity.” The removed fence wire gets taken to a metal recycler. So far, the fence busters have removed 98,000 pounds of fences across 16,000 acres.
Hurray for the volunteers of the Desert Fence Busters for tending to wildlife in their region, and to all the unsung heroes in communities around the world who step up and make our world a bit better.
Freely,
Dot
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