What are we doing with that wood? 

 

Over the last two months, youth crews from the Ancestral Lands program have spent time at Cottonwood Gulch camping, training, practicing healthy social distancing, and making our excess wood more accessible. Ancestral Lands crews have thinned overgrown forest and bucked, hauled, and piled many cords of wood, ready to disperse to people who need it. To ensure the wood gets where it is needed most, we have been in conversation with an organization called Chizh for Cheii (which translates roughly as “Wood for Grandfather”) about transporting the wood effectively to elders and families on the Navajo Nation. This project has the added benefit of reducing the fire risk for our property and our neighbors.

 

All the partners listed above–the Navajo-Hopi Families Relief effort, Ancestral Lands, and Chizh for Cheii–are grassroots organizations in need of funding. Cottonwood Gulch is also in need of funding to continue our side of the partnership, and if you’re able to support our partner organizations as well, we are confident your donation will make a big difference.