Upper Verde Wildlife Area with Gary Beverly

We had an incredible afternoon with Gary Beverly, chair of Citizens Water Advocacy Group, hiking around and learning about the Big Chino Watershed and the Upper Verde Wildlife Area, hosted by Prescott’s Natural History Institute. No one has done more to help protect the Upper Verde and a sustainable water supply for Arizona than Gary. He is really remarkable. Focus today on the amazing efforts to designate the Upper Verde as a “wild and scenic” river, as much of the section below Beasley RAP and Horseshoe Dam is. The Verde needs our help — without conservation and attention to overdraft from the aquifer, the Upper Verde will likely go dry within three decades.