Cascabel Working Group
A grassroots organization concerned with the cultural and ecological integrity of the lower/middle San Pedro Valley
The following are individual's or organization's comments sent to BLM and/or AZ Corporation Commission posted here with their permission. We hope that these will provide you with varying perspectives and opinions so that they may help your formulate your own comment to these agencies. Please feel free to send us your comments to post.

Organizations / Government Leaders

Pima County Administrator, C.H. Huckelberry - an excellent, detailed comment for the BLM (June 2010)
(323 KB PDF)

Cochise County Supervisor, Richard Searle
(16 KB PDF)

Comment from the Bureau of Reclamation
(85 KB PDF)

Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords guest opinion on SunZia Transmission Line Route through San Pedro River Valley
(73 KB PDF)

Congressman, Raul Grijalva's letter to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar
(73 KB PDF)

Cascabel Working Group's comment letter #2 to BLM
(47 KB PDF)

Cascabel Working Group's comments to BLM
(52 KB PDF)

Cascabel Community Center's comments to BLM
(54 KB PDF)

Redington Natural Resource Conservation District's comments to BLM
(80 KB PDF)

Center for Desert Archaeology and National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2nd round of comments to BLM
(211 KB PDF)

Center for Desert Archaeology and National Trust for Historic Preservation's comments to BLM
(161 KB PDF)

The Nature Conservancy's comments to BLM
(168 KB PDF)

Comment to BLM from The Wilderness Society, Sky Island Alliance, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Sierra Club, Western Resource Advocates, Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, Natural Resources Defense Council
(253 KB PDF)

The Wilderness Society: SunZia Transmission Proposal Talking Points
(582 KB PDF)

Winkelman Natural Resource Conservation District Comment to BLM
(253 KB PDF)

Individuals

Research Engineer, Jon Sjogren's excellent BLM Comments
(102 KB PDF)

Bonner McAllester's letter to the BLM and her op-ed piece David and Goliath in the Desert

Joe Baker's BLM comments

Richard Winslow's BLM comments

Mick Meader's comments to Cochise County Board of Supervisors
(102 KB PDF)

Chris Eastoe's comments to BLM
(782 KB PDF)

Eddie Araiza comments to BLM
(40 KB PDF)

David Omick's comments to BLM
(25 KB PDF)

Alan and Krista Binnie's comments to BLM
(39 KB PDF)

Brandon Wert's comments to BLM
(40 KB PDF)

Jacquie Dale's comments to BLM
(39 KB PDF)

James Bergstrom's comments to BLM
(48 KB PDF)

Gilbert Urias's comments to BLM
(42 KB PDF)

Jackelynn Wert's comments to BLM
(4 KB PDF)

Luci Wert's comments to BLM
(4 KB PDF)

Bob Evan's 2nd comment to BLM
(42 KB PDF)

Barbara Clark's comments to BLM
(44 KB PDF)

Lynn Smith-Lovin's comments to BLM
(59 KB PDF)

Bob Evan's 2nd comment to BLM
(42 KB PDF)

Leslie and Ross Maynard's comments to BLM
(37 KB PDF)

Arden and Elizabeth Buck's comments to BLM
(38 KB PDF)

Jon Sjogren's personal comments to AZ Corporation Commission
(28.7 KB PDF)

Press Releases from BLM and SunZia
BLM Extends Comment Period on Public on Proposed SunZia Transmission Lines (Press Release from BLM July 16)
(24 KB PDF)

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Newsletter 1 May 2009
(3.64 MB PDF)

Websites about the Project
BLM's Website on the project: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/more/lands_realty/sunzia_southwest_transmission.html

SunZia Southwest Website on the project: http://www.sunzia.net/

Online Articles
Meeting June 29th on SunZia transmission lines in the Willcox Range News

N.M.'s SunZia transmission line may foretell future intra-green battle lines in the New Mexico Independent

SunZia to Construct Transmission Line in Arizona in the Energy Business Review Utilities Network

Downloadable Documents
Map of proposed routes with property boundaries with conservation status in area of proposed transmission line.
(824 KB JPG)

Public Presentation by the SunZia Southwest Project in Willcox, AZ June 29,2009
(4.7 MB PDF)

Posters from Public Presentation in Willcox, AZ June 29, 2009
(5.96 MB PDF)