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Friends of Red Rock Canyon (FORRC) has
been struggling for years against the growing
blight of graffiti at Red Rock Canyon NCA. Re-
vitalization of the FORRC Graffiti Removal
Team is now an ongoing effort, in cooperation
with the Bureau of Land Management and other
concerned organizations. Vital to this effort is

the forming of groups of volunteers willing to
work in the field to eradicate existing graffiti
within the Conservation Area.
percentage of their total employee workforce and in-
cluded the PwC partners themselves: Fred Hipwell,
John Page and Kirk Thorell. They also brought with
them their contagious spirit of cooperation and team-

work. This proved the catalyst needed to get a phenom-
enal amount of graffiti removed in a surprisingly short
time. Unsightly, and in some cases obscene, paint,

On May 31 an enthusiastic, hardworking group Jennifer Kaniewski, Amy St. Clair, Fred Hipwell and
representing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC Farah Jamaluddin painting over graffiti in Ash Spring.

(PwC) made a major contribution to our fledgling Photo by June Kelley
program. Led by Jennifer Arias, over 30 PwC marker and scratched graffiti were removed from the

volunteers arrived in a convoy equipped and sandstone and foundations in the Calico Basin area,
ready for work. This represented a very large restoring the site to its original natural beauty.

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