# @troutunlimited on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZagidJjvlG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66493564-troutunlimited-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-10T17:44:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trout Unlimited (@troutunlimited) — https://gondola.cc/troutunlimited

## Caption

Construction is underway at our Thompson-Burro Meadow Restoration Project in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, which will restore 128 acres of wet meadow and 3.5 miles of stream in the heart of Apache trout country. 

This is TU’s highest-priority restoration project in Arizona over the coming years due to its location within the Salt and Colorado River Basins and the area’s abundance of ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial streams – which are all particularly vulnerable in the arid Southwest.

The 2011 Wallow Fire significantly impacted the project area. Many streams in the burn area experienced runoff from fire-impacted slopes and led to channel incision, erosion, and the loss of instream habitat. 

We will use process-based restoration structures in three creeks (West Fork Black River, Burro Creek, and Thompson Creek) to benefit the associated high-elevation wet meadows.

As a result of this work, this area will be better able to withstand the impacts of future wildfires and also provide colder, cleaner water to downstream users in the Phoenix Valley in a year of record low snowpack. It will also create jobs more locally in Apache County. 

Project Partners: 

• U.S. Forest Service
• Bureau of Reclamation
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Arizona Game and Fish
• Bonneville Environmental Foundation
• Microsoft
• World Resources Institute
• Caterpillar Foundation

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