1. Kara Dohrenwe nd Wildland Scapes, LLC P.O. Box 672 Moab Utah 84532 info@reveg.or g The Mill Creek Teen Summer Work Program: Revegetation, Education, Pregnancy Prevention and Job Skills Training

2. PROJECT LOCATION  MOAB

3. PROJECT PARTNERS  Bureau of Land Management  Four Corners Behavioral Health  Rim to Rim Restoration  Wildland Scapes

4. Mill creek Moab

5. OVERALL PROJECT GOALS  Job Skills Training  Ecological Education  Pregnancy Prevention  Exotic Weed Removal  Erosion Control  Revegetation

6. The Work Day …

7. Hiking to work

8. Circle Up

9. Eating Lunch?

10. Where’s the shade????

11. Cooling down

12. 2000 - THE FIRST YEAR Mapping to help define the problems Creek cross sections and transects Compiling notes from the day

13. A typical day of erosion and trail notes  Trails and erosion

14. BLM map of field data used for directing field work in 2001 and 2002

15. Vegetation distribution on the canyon floor Exotic species densities  Vegetation  Exotic plant distribution

16. 2001 - SECOND YEAR Erosion Control

17. Exotics Removal

18. Trail Delineation

19. 2002 - THIRD YEAR The main project site for 2002

20. Removing an olive to make a wattle

21. Wattles ready to go

22. Installing wattles made from russian olive branches

23. Success and failure…

24. Stephanie Ellingham, Bureau of Land Management Moab Office Laurie Collins, Four Corners Behavioral Health The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for funding in 2000 The Bureau of Land Management for funding in 2001 and 2002 In memory of Linda Seibert Thanks To…..