Nature Preserve
Hawkins Preserve is a natural museum on 120 acres including seven ecological zones:
- Piñon-juniper woodland or Pygmy forest
- Sagebrush steppe
- Slickrock Pothole
- Rimrock
- Alluvial bottomland
- Riparian corridor and intermittent streams
- Post-disturbance and dunes
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