Volunteers team up to restore wildlife habitat at Wigwam Flats

Volunteers team up to restore wildlife habitat at Wigwam Flats

Community volunteers spent the first weekend in May clearing and pruning brush at Wigwam Flats to help improve wildlife habitat. A team of 58 volunteers worked to clear 10 hectares of land near Elko on May 2, to improve sitelines for grazing herds of animals to better protect them from predators, and make the land more resilient to wildfire by reducing burnable material. There was a multi-generational group of helpers ranging in age from eight t…