Dear Friends of the Verde River,

Please join us Thursday evening, September 14, at the Grove in Prescott (119 Grove Avenue) for a fun evening of letter-writing to Save the Verde! Pens hit paper at 5:30 and can continue scribbling until 7:30. Pizza, munchies and beverages will be provided. And we will have example letters, writing materials, addresses and stamps available. Contact Ashley Fine at 928-533-4309 or creasotebsh@yahoo.com for more information.

Little Drop of Water
The Center has not kicked off the Little Drop of Water project yet “officially,” so you can be one of the first to join us! “Little Drops” will be at the letter-writing party on which you can write your notes for the Verde, promise to conserve water or request protection of the river’s flows. Check the http://savetheverde.org/ website later this week for more information about the project. If you can’t wait and need your Little Drop to color and write on today, you can email Michelle Harrington at mharrington@biologicaldiversity.org to receive the form as a pdf document. 

New on SaveTheVerde.org
Check out the new map of the Verde Watershed we’ve added to the website. The map includes the proposed pipeline route for the Big Chino Water Ranch Pipeline Project.

Calendar
Please check out our updated calendar of events! Note the numerous volunteer opportunities to help the campaign with outreach! Also, see the North Central Arizona Watershed Consortium meeting added on September 16.

If you have an item for the calendar, please contact Andrew Somerville at 928-445-0755 or andrewsome@hotmail.com.

Special thanks to the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (http://www.cwagaz.org/) for compiling many of the calendar entries.

Another Reminder
The Sierra Club has a “hands-on” opportunity to help the Verde River! You can help with water quality testing in the upper segment of the Verde River by participating in the Water Sentinels program. Contact Tom Slaback at 928-778-4233.

The Center for Biological Diversity appreciates your interest and involvement in the Save the Verde campaign. Please visit http://savetheverde.org/ for other news and updates. You can also make a donation to this campaign from the website! Please consider contributing if you haven’t done so already.

For more information on how to get involved, contact Ashley or Andrew. You may also contact Michelle Harrington, the Center’s Rivers Program Director, at 602-628-9909 or mharrington@biologicaldiversity.org.