Monsoons Help Fill Catchments For Arizona Wildlife
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Arizona Game and Fish Department
Bighorn sheep drink from a water catchment.
Recent monsoon rains have been helpful in a lot of ways, including for the state’s wildlife.
There are around 3,000 catchments around Arizona that provide water for animals; some of them date to the 1940s, and all kinds of species use them — from bighorn sheep and deer to little lizards and snakes.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department says last year it had to put out nearly two and a half million gallons of water into those catchments to make up for the lack of rain.
To find out more about this, The Show spoke with Joe Currie; he’s the habitat planning program manager for the Arizona Game and Fish Department and is the primary manager of all the wildlife waters across the state.
Arizona Game and Fish Department
In previous years, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has had to fill water catchments for wildlife when rainfall was scarce.
