Current Members:

• Arizona Game and Fish Department - John Windes

• Audubon Southwest - Tice Supplee

• Cascabel Conservation Association - Anna Lands

• Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance - Diane Lausch

• Pinal County - Kent TaylorThe Nature Conservancy - Bob Rogers/Damian Rawoot

SDR Facilitation: Tahnee Robertson, Julia Sittig, Colleen Whitaker

Purpose

Develop a state-wide online birding trail.

Current Members

• Oracle Community Liaison - Craig Anderson

See the Pinal County trail here

Purpose

Identify priority areas for enhancing landscape permeability in the watershed. Subgroup: Fence Inventory

Goal Statement

Current Members

• Aravaipa Property Owners/LSPWA - Cathy Gorman

• Arizona Game and Fish Department - John Windes

• Cascabel Conservation Association - Pearl Mast

• Nature InSight - Scott Wilbor

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• Saguaro National Park - Jeff Conn

• The Nature Conservancy - Bob Rogers/Damian Rawoot

• UA/Cascabel Conservation Association - Alex Binford-Walsh

SDR Facilitation: Colleen Whitaker

Purpose

Prioritize places in the watershed to restore and protect damage associated with wildfire and invasive species.

Current Members

• Aravaipa Property Owners/LSPWA - Cathy Gorman

• AZ Department of Fire & Forestry Management - Willie Sommers, Mayra Moreno, Matthew Jewell

• AZ Game and Fish Department - John Windes, Shawn Lowery

• Audubon - Craig Anderson

• Audubon Southwest - Tice Supplee

• Bureau of Reclamation - Tab Bommarito

• Cascabel Conservation Association - Anna Lands, Pearl Mast

• Cascabel Conservation Association/Saguaro-Juniper - Nancy Ferguson

• Cochise County - Mark Apel

• Coronado National Forest - Jennifer Varin

• Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance - Diane Lausch

• Nature InSight - Scott Wilbor

• Pima County - Karen Simms

• Pinal County - Chuck Kmet, Chris Wanamaker, Kent Taylor

• San Carlos Apache Tribe - Paul Buck

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• Salt River Project - Heather English

• The Nature Conservancy - Bob Rogers, Damian Rawoot

• Town of Superior - Mila Lira

• UA/Cascabel Conservation Association - Alex Binford-Walsh

• Winkelman NRCD - Kyle Thompson

SDR Facilitation: Julia Sittig

Purpose

Develop creative opportunities for private landowners to work together with larger landowners/agencies on restoration/conservation efforts. Help private landowners learn about opportunities, tools and funding to engage in restoration/conservation efforts on their own land. 

Current Members

• Aravaipa Property Owners/LSPWA - Cathy Gorman

• Audubon - Craig Anderson

• AZ Department of Fire and Forestry Management - Willie Sommers

• Cascabel Conservation Association - Pearl Mast

• Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance - Diane Laush

• Nature InSight - Scott Wilbor

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• Salt River Project - Heather English 

• The Nature Conservancy - Damian Rawoot

SDR Facilitation: Colleen Whitaker, Julia Sittig, Tahnee Robertson

Purpose

Catalogue recreational assets in the Lower San Pedro watershed, and identify current recreational issues for the collaborative.

Current Members

• Pinal County - Kent Taylor

• BLM Tucson Field Office - Colleen Bergmanis/Francisco Mendoza

• Audubon - Craig Anderson

SDR Facilitation: Colleen Whitaker

Purpose

Develop a shared spatial data platform for the collaborative. 

Current Members

• The Nature Conservancy - Damian Rawoot

• Nature InSight - Scott Wilbor

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• University of Arizona - Alex Binford-Walsh

SDR Facilitation: Julia Sittig, Colleen Whitaker

See the shared data platform here.

Inter-county Land Use

Comprised of representatives from each of the four counties in the watershed (Pinal, Pima, Cochise and Graham), this team worked to identify areas of alignment within county planning documents, and clarify opportunities for further discussion and collaboration.

Shared Funding

This team researched and helped set up the shared funding mechanism that supports the facilitation of the collaborative.