Hawkins Preserve - Nature Preserve

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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