Current Members:

• Arizona Game and Fish Department - Shawn Lowery/Katie Matthiesen

• Towhee Environmental (formerly Audubon Southwest) - Tice Supplee

• Pinal County - Kelley Fox

• The Nature Conservancy - John Windes

SDR Facilitation: Julia Guglielmo, Colleen Whitaker

Purpose

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

Goal Statement

Current Members

• Cascabel Conservation Association - Pearl Mast

• Nature InSight - Scott Wilbor

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• Saguaro National Park - Jeff Conn

• The Nature Conservancy - John Windes

• UA/Cascabel Conservation Association - Alex Binford-Walsh

SDR Facilitation: Colleen Whitaker

Purpose

Develop a set of watershed health indicators for the Lower San Pedro watershed, and work towards a State of the Watershed regular report and convening. 

Current Members

• Partners for Dryland Planning/Aravaipa Watershed Conservation Alliance - Garland Speight

• Oracle community - Craig Anderson

• Pinal County - Kelley Fox 

• The Nature Conservancy - John Windes

• Archaeology Southwest / Cascabel Conservation Association - Alex Binford-Walsh

• Pima County NRPR - Liz Delcamp 

• Safe Passages - Matt Clark

• Salt River Project - Heather English 

SDR Facilitation: Julia Guglielmo

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 - 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

Currently on hold 

Purpose

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

Past Members

• Pinal County - Kent Taylor

• BLM Tucson Field Office - Colleen Bergmanis/Francisco Mendoza

• Audubon - Craig Anderson

SDR Facilitation: Colleen Whitaker

Shared Data 

This team developed a shared spatial data platform for the collaborative. This data is now informing the Watershed Indicators Team. 

Birding Trail

This state-wide Arizona Birding Trail began as an initiative of the collaborative in Pinal County. 

Land owner engagement

This team explored opportunities for private landowners to work together with larger landowners/agencies on restoration/conservation efforts, and looked for ways to support private landowners learn about opportunities, tools and funding to engage in restoration/conservation efforts on their own land. 

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.