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14 Friends oF red rock canyon

By Kristi Weeks

Photos by Roger Hembree

Volunteers dedicated to the preservation of Red Rock Canyon

BLM’s Joe Kotecki, Fire and Wyatt Mulvey Peter Sbraccia shows off the results of a BLM’s Shelby Johnson collecting a dumped
replacing fencing at Lost Creek successful graffiti removal tire during NPLD
he Bureau of Land Management (BLM) SWAG, food and beverages as well as supplies
T sponsors three community volunteer events needed for event projects. Our sister nonprofit,
annually: Red Rock Day, the Southern Nevada
typically occurs in the Conservancy (SNC),
early spring, and the fall also provides staffing,
events, National Pub- as well as educational
lic Lands Day (NPLD) and interpretive oppor-
and Make a Difference tunities.
Day (MADD). Friends
of Red Rock Canyon Kyle Canyon Road,
provides both substan- in the northernmost area
tial volunteer support of Red Rock Canyon,
for these events, as well was the site chosen
as financing transporta- by the BLM for the
tion, first aid responders September 29 National
and ambulance services, Public Lands Day. The
sanitation facilities (the registration and SWAG
ubiquitous Port a Pots distribution, at the
and hand wash stations), The bobcat loading more trash into the BLM truck Twilight Zone parking
area, was coordinated

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