San Pedro Valley Conservation Investments

 

Current and Recent Conservation Initiatives

 

•       U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lower San Pedro River wildlife refuge and collaborative conservation initiative

•       America\92s Great Outdoors Lower San Pedro River conservation initiative

•       NRCS/USFWS joint Working Lands for Wildlife Habitat initiative

•       Resolution Copper Mine Land Exchange (7B Ranch)

•       USDA Forest Service Forest Legacy Program\92s #1 preservation objective in 2009

 

Other Agencies/Organizations with Conservation Lands and Easements

 

•       Arizona Game and Fish Department \96 easements and fee lands

•       Bureau of Land Management \96 Cascabel conservation area

•       Bureau of Reclamation \96 San Pedro Preserve at Dudleyville, Cook\92s Lake, Spirit Hollow, Three Links Farm (fee and easement lands)

•       Nature Conservancy \96 San Pedro Preserve at Dudleyville, H&E Farm, Buehman Canyon, lower Hot Springs Wash, Three Links Farm

•       Pima County \96 A-7 Ranch, Buehman Canyon, Bingham Cienega, Six Bar Ranch

•       Saguaro Juniper Corporation \96 lower Hot Springs Canyon

•       Salt River Project \96 Adobe Preserve North, Black\92s Farm, Spirit Hollow

•       Southwest Archaeology \96 Redington Ball Court and numerous easements

 

Summary of Environmental Values

 

•       One of the Nature Conservancy\92s \93Last Great Places\94

•       Last free-flowing river in the Desert Southwest

•       Part of the largest unfragmented landscape in Arizona outside the Grand Canyon region

•       One of the three principal desert life corridors in the Southwest (along with Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers)

•       Exceeds the Rio Grande River Valley in biological richness

•       Hosts the largest mammal species diversity in North America

•       Recognized as a Globally Important Bird Area by the American Bird Conservancy

•       Principal north-south migration corridor for Central American birds

•       Habitat for numerous threatened and endangered species

•       Hosts one of the largest remaining intact mesquite forests in the world

•       Rich archaeological history dating from earliest North American human occupation (Clovis)

 

Click on the image below for a detailed pdf showing the variety and scope of conservation work as of summer 2010.