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CAWSF Sponsors Creosote Drinker Installation in 2019

2019

It takes a lot of funds, and a lot of volunteer sweat to create a successful new Guzzler for wild sheep. This is the mission for Give a Lamb a Drink.

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About forty volunteers, several in hard hats, pose together on a rocky desert slope beside the work site — It took a great team coming together.

Volunteers rake and shovel a cleared patch of desert ground edged with a row of sandbags — You could be part of an awesome team like this making a real difference.

Two drinker housings shaped and colored like rock outcrops stand among desert scrub as volunteers walk by — Drinkers are designed to be inconspicuous, and tough.

Four-wheel-drive vehicles, one a California Conservation Corps crew truck, lined up on a sandy desert track — After meeting at a rally point, those with suitable vehicles convoy into the location.

A yellow mini excavator digs a pit in the desert floor below rocky hills — Heavy equipment takes care of the worst work.

Volunteers with shovels and rakes level the cleared ground, two of them in camouflage uniforms — The ground has to be carefully prepared to insure the integrity and lifespan of the lining.

A line of workers in hard hats pulls a large tan liner across the prepared ground — Positioning the lining, all hands on deck!

Volunteers in warm jackets gather under a canopy beside tables of food and camp stoves in low desert sun — Of course there is good food and ample socializing.

Children and adults collect rocks in a tub and rake the ground, with wheelbarrows behind them — Volunteers of all ages can get involved.

An excavator pushes soil over ribbed plastic water tanks set in a trench — Burying the reservoir.