Field Trip Overview

Saturday March 29, 2003

8:00 AM depart UA West Stadium (meet at Gate 15)

Stop 1 Sonoran desert biome; proposed Asarco mine location

Stop 2 Oak-woodland biome

Stop 3 Grassland biome, including woody perennial encroachment

Rest Stop- Sonoita

Stop 4 Grazing effects (Elgin)

Stop 5 Audubon Research Ranch; Van 1 presents world grazing plan

Lunch- Sonoita

Drive through Box Canyon

Stop 6 Vegetation on terrace surfaces on west Side of Santa Rita Mts.

Stop 7 Pecan groves (Green Valley)

Stop 8 Pima Road CAP recharge project

Rest Stop- Asarco visitor center

Stop 9 Mining and reclamation

Stop 10 Mining tailings; Van 2 presents world mining plan

(Stop 11 San Xavier Mission- time permitting)

Stop 12 Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus; Van 3 presents world water plan

Back to UA

This is not a field trip to the planetarium, but is an outdoor field trip for natural sciences. Your experience will be that of a field trip into natural settings, so be prepared as necessary. For those who go, we will have a long day, but hopefully fun and learn a lot. There will be something to turn in at the end of the day, but it will not take long for you to complete.

For Your Comfort, Health and Success, BRING:

1. thinking cap

2. pen/pencil, notebook

3. sunscreen, sunglasses, hat

4. windy-cool-showery gear

5. comfortable shoes

6. lunch, water (there will be "country store" at place we stop for lunch)

7. student visa for Foreign students

Plans should contain preface (why grazing/water/minerals important in today's world), positive and negative environmental consequences associated with grazing/water/minerals, your plan to minimize negative environmental effects from grazing/water/minerals (operationally, life-style, economically, geographically, agriculturally, domestically, industrially, or whatever might be relevant to a plan). Your plan can be as radical or conservative as your group would like, but the other 2 groups have responsibility of asking critical questions about your plan.