http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html About fifteen acres of the south-facing slope of Brown Mountain in Tucson Mountain Park was heavily infested in 2005 with dense patches of buffelgrass. With the dedication of hundreds of weedwacker volunteers and many hours of digging, bagging and rocking, this desert is now clear of buffelgrass and is in maintenance-mode with reclearing needed perhaps every two years. http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#0 008e5806-23a1-4f43-8816-a7bc1e5c7c2c http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.2.25.BrnMt%20slope.Bef%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.2.25.BrnMt%20slope.Bef%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.2.25.BrnMt%20slope.Bef%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In February of 2006, the slopes on Brown Mountain looked impossibly covered with buffelgrass. Native vegetation had disappeared under these patches.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#1 f64099dd-4dcb-474e-99ef-18878ed466e1 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.1.south%20to%20wall/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.1.south%20to%20wall/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.1.south%20to%20wall/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Looking south the saguaros were surrounded by the invasive grass.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#2 0e06538c-71cc-4961-95af-542a21915da4 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.3.slopeBrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.3.slopeBrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.3.slopeBrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In March 2006, the weedwackers attacked the slope starting at the north edge.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#3 02ea1537-0719-40a6-9736-721144f679a9 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.comparison/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.comparison/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.comparison/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In April, the line of attack had moved south down the slope. Weedwackers can be seen in the distance.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#4 3f4d2e87-dfa5-4ba4-b7ca-ddcc5aa94b79 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.4.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Same day in April of 2006, the line of attack is clearly marked by the absence of BG on the upper slope.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#5 efbd7373-2d7b-4fcf-a6b5-551d6510e9c8 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.6.hard%20work%20early%20in%20the%20morning/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.6.hard%20work%20early%20in%20the%20morning/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.6.hard%20work%20early%20in%20the%20morning/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In June of 2006, we started at 6:00am and are working in the shade for the first hour. In 2006, weedwackers bagged the dug-out grass and carried the bags out for half a mile on rocky slopes and a trail.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#6 9edfb4bc-575b-4d6d-aae6-4c8757ef38f6 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.wwers%20on%20slope%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.wwers%20on%20slope%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.wwers%20on%20slope%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">July of 2006 the weedwackers are approaching that rock wall in the distance.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#7 5b8eeb5f-2fe2-4398-b1a7-56b76a919a19 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.%20Comparison/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.%20Comparison/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2006.7.%20Comparison/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Photo taken from the same location as the first picture. The weedwackers are approaching that rock wall in the distance.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#8 b1c94f81-9c80-47cb-b0f2-132d27eaaae0 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.map.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.map.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.map.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This map shows the Brown Mountain Trail and the locations of the work of the weedwackers.The rock wall is in the lower right of the map. Each dot represents a different work day.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#9 cd3deeb2-cb0e-43a4-96cf-c493d6d1c6e2 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2-22-08/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2-22-08/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2-22-08/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The buffelgrass came back with a vengeance after ample rains during the monsoons of 2007.  In February of 2008, the slopes were green with newly-formed BG loaded with seedheads.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#10 9089bc14-d38e-469e-a2d6-fcf4e004f821 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">October of 2008 Weedwackers took to the slopes again. The plants were not as tall or dense as the original infestation.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#11 e03dbd7a-6fad-4237-ac42-fa866090df49 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/10-18-08c/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/10-18-08c/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/10-18-08c/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">For this second clearing, the buffelgrass was dug,  laid down in piles and then covered with rocks. There was an ample supply of rocks!</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#12 7842a023-0466-4857-b3f8-1d277607ea9b http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/11-15-08d/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/11-15-08d/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/11-15-08d/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Again, lots of hard work on steep slopes with very little native vegetation under the infestation.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#13 b2c7cf4b-542d-424a-96dc-66bbef0ec90f http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt2/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt2/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.10.BrnMt2/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Weedwackers started at 7:00am. Buffelgrass covers the slope all the way to the rock wall in the distance.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#14 011b9dfb-9296-40b9-9b73-8b307a664686 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.rocking/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.rocking/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.rocking/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Dug-out buffel covered with rocks.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#15 27191754-e48f-4002-aeaf-4f113533a259 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.digging/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.digging/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.BrnMt.digging/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">November of 2008 a weedwacker is surrounded with buffelgrass.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#16 160e3a0c-f7bf-4aef-ac8b-5c67c73f9654 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.grp.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.grp.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.11.grp.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Many hard-working volunteers, students from middle school to University groups, helped out.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#17 14dfdb80-5221-48ed-971f-5f51f5b0dc13 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.rocked.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.rocked.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.rocked.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">By February 2009, the slopes are covered with piles of dead buffelgrass.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#18 1288770e-34c7-46bc-a785-a71b6ee42311 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.bef.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.bef.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.bef.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Weedwackers are now working near the rock wall with buffel in the foreground to be pulled..</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#19 e3e4c2ed-cc4e-48cf-96aa-f47322cf3a4f http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.2.aft.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.2.aft.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2008.2.aft.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">and now it is reduced to a rocked pile.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#20 caf77f8f-21a4-41d1-893b-b3b4fef4943d http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.map.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.map.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.2.map.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">By the end of February 2009, the major infestation has been recleared with each patch representing a weedwacking event.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#21 3e7b95de-e8eb-4588-9d17-905ba1c3dcb4 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.wwing.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.wwing.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.wwing.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We are almost done clearing this slope for the second time.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#22 d893e62b-ccfc-43b3-beb6-10b72c208552 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.Lois%3APeter.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.Lois%3APeter.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.Lois%3APeter.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">April 2009 the group is now clearing toward the bottom of the slope.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#23 9f83f3e6-8f7b-4838-a8e9-48f815dd9179 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.map.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.map.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2009.4.map.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We finished the patch to the left on the bottom of the slope.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#24 61113b1b-b2cf-41ec-8227-d271c7226228 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/5.16.2009.map%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/5.16.2009.map%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/5.16.2009.map%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In May we ranged across the valley at the bottom of Brown Mountain to dig out all buffelgrass that was scattered on the lower elevations. The aqua line represents the San Juan Wash cleared multiple times.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#25 6883b044-b861-43d3-809b-27022ea0060e http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2010.9.18.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2010.9.18.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2010.9.18.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A year later in September of 2010 the slope was recovering. Again this picture is taken at the same location of the first picture.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#26 8d06c2a7-ca2e-4bd8-83f8-84f565ba52b2 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.judo/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.judo/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.judo/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">For Beat Back Buffelgrass Day 2010, about 20 Desert Museum junior docents swept the slope digging out any remaining buffelgrass resprouts.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#27 31ba9906-51a7-4f2a-8e51-e7f23fddceab http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.jrdo/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.jrdo/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.28.jrdo/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">For the most part these plants are small..but as you can see they still produce seedheads.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#28 6d9e008c-e3aa-42af-85e0-539c259f6d6b http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.26.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.26.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.1.26.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Once again for 2012 Beat Back Buffelgrass Day, the junior docents cleaned the slope of all small BG seedlings.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#29 d3563fc4-d926-42a2-ae05-093fa3c9e81a http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.17.brown%20Mountain%20all.S%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.17.brown%20Mountain%20all.S%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.17.brown%20Mountain%20all.S%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Now in February of 2012 the area has been recleared twice. Aqua color indicates reclearing.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#30 dcff1d7b-8bb4-4308-81fe-164a078cf079 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMt.groundflr%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMt.groundflr%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMt.groundflr%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">The ground cover is coming back.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#31 ebe9af41-7b2a-4b44-937e-2de70c372c08 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMtn.long%20view%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMtn.long%20view%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.20.BrnMtn.long%20view%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In February of 2012 native shrubs and other perennials are thriving.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#32 661fd8f6-a050-413c-82e5-5117aa6b6a98 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.3.GIS.BrnMt/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.3.GIS.BrnMt/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.3.GIS.BrnMt/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">On Brown Mountain, dense buffelgrass covered 5 acres while scattered plants were found on about 10 acres. All of this area is now clean of buffelgrass.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#33 d77a58be-0cf0-4cd7-b60e-5289d75fa8ad http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/IMG_2740/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/IMG_2740/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/IMG_2740/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Mature Brittlebush shrubs are thriving with many small seedlings emerging in the spring of 2012.</p></div></div> http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success.html#34 c752adcc-e2dc-4868-85bf-c29330bc02a4 http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.27.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/thumb.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.27.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/micro.jpg http://hansonfamily.org/mfhanson/Sonoran_Desert_Weedwackers/Weedwacker_Success_Stories/Pages/2012.3.4.BrnMt_Success_files/Media/2012.2.27.BrnMt%20slope.L%20copy/mip.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_169_99"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Again the same slope as pictured in the first slide shows that this slope is now recovered from the buffelgrass infestation, thanks to the many hours put in by the hard-working weedwackers.!!</p></div></div>