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The Grand Canyon Trust is one of the best environmental groups today. The employees are extremely down to earth and well-grounded people.
Experience
My experience with GCT was very heartfelt and enlightening in a spiritual and knowledgeable sense. I was skeptical at first. I had no idea what I had got myself into and I quickly realized that my thoughts were misplaced. The country that GCT takes care of and maintains is some of the most beautiful lands in the United States. I have always had a love for the environment and shared an affinity with nature. The Trust just solidified the importance of maintaining the land with the knowledge of the wildlife. It’s so important that we can keep the lands as natural and as pristine as possible for generations to come.
In my time of helping out the Trust, we went to Utah and I had no idea Utah could be so green and glorious. I know that GCT had told us we were at the point where Utah’s fresh water generally came from. There was so much vegetation and water sources all around our base camp. Our group learned about Pando clones which is a group of aspens that are connected (one tree that looks like many). We cleared out invasive thistle in an area blocked off from the public to allow the lands to thrive the way that area was naturally. I cannot stress enough how beautiful this area was and how important the work we were doing impacts the environment long term. The GCT team is prepared in every possible way. They set us up with some amazing meals in the outdoors. Our group ate like kings considering we were camping. When we finished removing the invasive thistle and documenting the changes of the Pando clone we moved to a canyon with a clear river flowing through.