ACHIEVING LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS Four Case Studies from Arizona

Malpai Borderlands Altar Valley Lower Colorado River MSCP Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4-FRI) Case Studies

THE FOUR LANDSCAPES

MALPAI BORDERLANDS GROUP

COOPERATORS Private Sector Cooperating ranchers in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico Public Sector U.S. Department of Agriculture: Forest Service, Coronado National Forest Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Natural Resources Conservation Service, Arizona and New Mexico Hidalgo Soil and Water Conservation District Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District U.S. Department of Interior: Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces and Gila Districts Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Border Patrol/Customs Arizona State Land Department University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory University of New Mexico Arizona State University New Mexico State University New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Arizona Game and Fish Department Nonprofit Organizations The Animas Foundation The Nature Conservancy Fundacion San Bernardino

THE PROBLEM TO SOLVE? Astin Springs 1875Astin Springs 1994

SURROGATE SPECIES? Desert Massasagua

ALTAR VALLEY

ALTAR COOPERATORS Partner Organizations: Altar Valley School District (AVSD) Arivaca Fire District (AFD) Arivaca Online Arivaca Watershed Education Task Force (AWET) Arizona Antelope Foundation, Inc. (AAF) Arizona Cattle Growers Association (ACGA) Arizona Farm Bureau (AFB) Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) Arizona Game and Fish Department, Tucson Habitat Partnership Committee Arizona Land and Water Trust (ALWT) Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) Coronado Resource Conservation & Development Area (Coronado RC&D) Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Pima County Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Pima County Regional Flood Control District Pima County Farm Bureau (PCFB) Pima Natural Resource Conservation District (Pima NRCD) Quivira Coalition RangeLand Hands Robinett Rangeland Resources, LLC San Fernando School District Seibert Ecological Restoration, LLC Sky Island Institute Volunteers Southern Arizona Cattlemen’s Protective Association (SACPA) Southwest Coordination Center (SWCC) The Nature Conservancy, Arizona (TNC) Three Points Fire District University of Arizona, FROG Conservation Project University of Arizona, School of Anthropology University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) University of Arizona, Southwest Center (SWC) University of Arizona, Tierra Seca Club U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Arizona Ecological Services Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) U.S. Forest Service, Coronado National Forest U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona WestLand Resources, Inc. Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, LLC

THE PROBLEM TO SOLVE? Bufflegrass InvasionBufflegrass Burn

SURROGATE SPECIES? Pima pineapple cactus

LOWER COLORADO RIVER MSCP

COOPERATORS

THE PROBLEM(S) TO SOLVE? Non-native fish predationRegulated hydrograph; channelization

SURROGATE SPECIES? Restored marsh For non-native species control? California black rail

FOUR FORESTS RESTORATION INITIATIVE

4-FRI COOPERATORS Arizona Eastern Counties Assoc. Arizona Elk Society Arizona Game and Fish Department Arizona State Forestry Division Arizona Wildlife Federation Center for Biological Diversity Coconino County Coconino Natural Resources Conservation District Coconino Rural Environment Corps Ecological Restoration Institute Flagstaff Fire Department Forest Energy Graham County Grand Canyon Trust Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership Greenlee County Mottek Consulting National Wild Turkey Federation Natural Resources Working Group Navajo County Northern Arizona Logging Assoc. Northern Arizona University Northern Ariz. Wood Products Assoc. Pioneer Assoc. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Salt River Project Sierra Club SW Sustainable Forests Partnership The Nature Conservancy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

THE PROBLEM TO SOLVE? Hyde Park Fire (CO)

SURROGATE SPECIES? Mixed conifer: Mexican spotted owl Ponderosa pine: Northern goshawk