With record temperatures in cities like Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona is using heavy-duty water trucks and helicopters to replenish a network of man-made watering holes, or catchments, across the state to help protect Arizona’s 800 species of wildlife.
It’s a different story for the state’s wildlife. When it’s hot and there’s no rain — which is the case so far this season — the Arizona Game and Fish Department keeps animals of all sizes and shapes alive by bringing water directly to them.
“We’ve experienced 20 years of a terrible drought. I’m hearing that they’re not even using the term drought anymore, but the aridification of the Southwest. It’s of that magnitude now,” says Ed Jahrke, AGFD wildlife specialist and infrastructure manger. Still, Jahrke reports the animals are benefiting from a rainy winter that kept catchments full with storm runoff earlier in this year. While there has been an “uptick in water haul requests” from individual AGFD regions, “we’re not at a critical stage yet despite the record-setting heat.”Smith and his crew set off with three trucks loaded with 6,800 gallons for a site near Gila Bend in central Arizona, low desert country.
Today, most of the catchments are 5,000-gallon cement basins that drain into a trough accessible in size and height to the largest and smallest visitors. Some can store as much as 10,000 gallons.
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