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=Willow Creek Riparian Preserve= Kingman, Arizona 86401 Willow Creek Riparian Preserve webpage

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Willow Creek Riparian Preserve (private)
Coordinates: 35.1380327, -113.5511872 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Willow Creek Riparian Preserve
The Willow Creek Riparian Preserve is a 10-acre privately owned and managed high desert riparian refuge located 30 miles east of Kingman, Arizona. This is the first privately owned Riparian Preserve in Northwestern Arizona to exclude livestock grazing and human-related impacts from off-road vehicles and trespass with the intent to restore the creek and upland habitat and regain native wildlife use.

The Preserve includes both creek and upland habitats. The creek habitat consists of a cottonwood - willow - mesquite woodland with a dominance of willow seep and the occasional Arizona ash tree. The upland habitat consists of high desert grassland with a dominance of mesquite, crucifixion thorn tree, banana yucca, cacti, ocotillo, and creosote bush. We are situated in the ecotone between high desert grassland and pinyon-juniper woodland at the base of the Aquarius Mountains at an approximate elevation of 3,600-feet.

Willow Creek Riparian Preserve offers 4-hour guided walking tours that extend into and outside of the Preserve. This tour is guided by professional wildlife ecologists (Bob and Julie) with over 50 years of combined experience throughout the Southwestern U.S.

These walking tours cover an array of high desert ecology, from plants to wildlife tracks and sign, geology and streambed dynamics, birds to reptile and amphibian observations, and area history and Native American use. From Willow Creek Riparian Preserve webpage



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