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May 14, 2009: Arizona Forest Project Number One Priority in the Nation
President Barack Obama?s recently released 2010 budget request includes funding to help conserve an iconic piece of Arizona, the San Pedro River and the forest along its banks. Through an extensive review process, the U.S. Forest Service determined the strong ecological values of the San Pedro River Ecosystem Project deserved the highest funding priority in its Forest Legacy Program.
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Aaron Drew
Phone: (720) 425-3930
E-mail: adrew@tnc.org
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March 26, 2009: The Nature Conservancy Applauds Passage of Public Lands Act
The Nature Conservancy applauds the passage of the Omnibus Public Lands Act today. This bipartisan act supports many crucial efforts at the local, state and national levels to protect and conserve natural places and wildlife, including important lands and waters in Arizona.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
Cell: (602) 618-4291
E-mail: tskrovan@tnc.org |
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November 12, 2008: Critical land and water along San Pedro River permanently protected
Partners come together to protect one of the Southwest’s most ecologically significant rivers and a vital migratory bird corridor.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 618-4291
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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May 01, 2008: New Maps Provide Baseline for Flow of San Pedro River
The first maps that track where the San Pedro River flows and where it is dry between Mexico to the Gila River are available.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 20, 2008: Arizona Lands & Waters Receive Conservation Boost
Arizona's borderlands with New Mexico and Mexico and other critical Arizona lands and waters receive conservation boost from $13 million regional grant.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 618-4291 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 20, 2008: Critical Arizona Conservation Priorities Receive Boost
Verde River and other critical Arizona conservation priorities receive a boost from a $13 million regional grant.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 618-4291 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 19, 2008: Conservancy, AZGFD Partner to Protect Verde River Springs
The Verde River, an essential source of water to communities and wildlife from northern Yavapai County to the Phoenix valley, received an increased level of protection today as 293 acres along the river’s upper path were committed to conservation by The Nature Conservancy and the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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January 07, 2008: The Nature Conservancy Purchases Verde River Springs
The Verde River emerges from the ground in a deep canyon, 25 miles north of Prescott, where a series of springs well up under a cap of volcanic rock. The springs are fed by aquifers deep below the Big Chino and Little Chino valleys.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
or (480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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October 09, 2007: Four Native Fish Species Returned to Arizona Canyons
A multi-agency team converged in southeastern Arizona last week to carry out one of the largest reintroduction efforts in the state of threatened and endangered fish species. Four varieties of native fish were introduced to five new locations at the Muleshoe Ranch Cooperative Management Area (CMA), near Willcox.
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Tamera Skrovan
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July 24, 2007: Endangered Fish Return to Native Waters
About 50 endangered woundfin fish returned to native waters of the Hassayampa River Preserve courtesy of Arizona Game and Fish Department biologists' hard work and an interstate truck ride in special holding tanks.
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Marty Lawrence
Phone: (928) 684-2772
E-Mail: mlawrence@tnc.org
Lynda Lambert, AGFD
Phone: (602) 789-3203
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July 12, 2007: Saving Historic Babacomari Ranch, New Agreement Protects Fragile San Pedro River
A coalition of unlikely partners has joined together to protect 487.3 acres of a 175-year-old cattle ranch along the Babocomari River—a key tributary to the San Pedro River near Sierra Vista, Arizona.
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Tom Collazo
Phone: (520) 622-3861, ext. 3421
E-Mail: tcollazo@tnc.org |
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May 29, 2007: The Nature Conservancy in Arizona Names Directors to New Executive Posts
Susan Waschler of Phoenix and Tom Collazo of Tucson have been named to new leadership roles in The Nature Conservancy in Arizona, State Director Patrick Graham announced today. Both positions report to Graham and oversee key areas within the 40-year-old nonprofit conservation group.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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May 02, 2007: The Nature Conservancy Launches New Carbon Calculator
The Conservancy’s new carbon calculator is distinctive in showing how individual choices and actions either increase or decrease a user’s impact on global warming.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 29, 2007: The Nature Conservancy’s Hassayampa River Preserve Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The Nature Conservancy’s Hassayampa River Preserve marks its 20th anniversary with a four-day celebration.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 21, 2007: The Nature Conservancy Applauds Arizona’s Rep. Grijalva For Commitment to Protect National Parks
A bill that would allow the National Park Service to work with a broad range of partners to protect important lands from invasive species—“non-native” plants and animals—passed the House of Representatives Monday by a 390-10 margin thanks to swift action by Natural Resources Committee for National Parks and Forests, Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 19, 2007: BLM Purchases Land Conservation Easement
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Tucson Field Office completed the purchase of a conservation easement in southeast Arizona along the Babocomari River, called the River Pasture. The Nature Conservancy in Arizona also played an important role in facilitating purchase of the 674-acre conservation easement from the Babacomari Ranch Company L.L.L.P.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
Lorraine Buck, BLM
Phone (520) 258-7240
Ben Brophy, Babacomari Ranch
Phone (316) 291-1972 |
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February 12, 2007: Donation of Historic Ranch Helps Protect the San Pedro River
A key tributary of the threatened San Pedro River will be protected from development and groundwater pumping thanks to the donation of historic Cobra Ranch to The Nature Conservancy in Arizona by Dan Bates, a Tucson artist and restaurateur. Cobra Ranch includes 1,250 private acres and 10,000 acres of state and U.S. Forest Service grazing leases adjacent to the Conservancy’s Aravaipa Canyon Preserve, located about 50 miles northeast of Tucson in Graham County.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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January 23, 2007: Conserving Arizona's Future Vows to Continue Efforts to Protect Important Land and Water across the
Yes on Prop 106, Conserving Arizona's Future coalition vowed today to continue to move forward in their efforts to protect the important land and water across the state from development.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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February 27, 2006: The Power of Partnership
Birth of a public-private coalition near Prescott is poised to bring science-based water resource management to the Verde River basin. More than 200 people attended a mid-February community forum to launch the Verde River Basin Partnership.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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January 30, 2006: Mongolian Scientists Study Arizona's Grasslands
Two young women scientists working to save Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are touring grasslands throughout Arizona by mule, horse and foot in an innovative partnership with The Nature Conservancy designed to protect these rapidly disappearing lands on both continents. The Mongolian delegates will visit several sites statewide from January 7 through 21, 2006—hosted by scientists, ranchers and various conservation partners—to learn about the Conservancy’s planning approach.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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November 23, 2005: Unique Nature Conservancy Program Promotes Information Exchange
MONGOLIAN SCIENTISTS STUDY ARIZONA’S GRASSLANDS
Unique Nature Conservancy Program Promotes Information Exchange
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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November 03, 2005: Working Group Releases List of 71 Invasive Plants Threatening Arizona's Wildlands
A group of more than 25 organizations assessing the impacts of non-native invasive plants on Arizona’s natural resources today released a list of 71 plants threatening the state’s wildlands. The categorized information—available in a spiral-bound booklet or electronically—will help everyone from landscape architects to state and federal land managers identify and take steps to manage plants that in a worst-case scenario can alter natural fire and water processes within Arizona.
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Tamera Skrovan
Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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June 02, 2005: Bond Celebrates First Anniversary
One year after Southern Arizona’s Pima County voters passed a historic open space protection bond, the county continues to make progress on acquiring properties identified as conservation priorities.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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May 04, 2005: Prescribed Burns Restoring Muleshoe
Riparian areas are springing back to life and surrounding semi-desert lands are reverting back into thick, robust grasslands as the result of four prescribed burns between 1995 and 2000 at the Muleshoe Ranch Cooperative Management Area
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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February 24, 2005: Historic Release at Alamo Dam Mimics Natural Flood, Improves Health of Bill Williams River
A collaborative effort by several organizations is helping to guide operation of Alamo Dam so that water releases from the dam will improve riparian habitat along the Bill Williams River near Parker.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
Jennie Salas
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(602) 640-2015 ext. 285
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February 14, 2005: Bringing Back Fossil Creek
The reversal of nearly 100 years of power plant history continues giving new life to one of Arizona's natural treasures. The Nature Conservancy in Arizona presented the hydroelectric plant shut-down proposal to Arizona Public Service in 1997 as a historic conservation opportunity.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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February 07, 2005: Conservancy Announces Cross-Border Project
A cross-border partnership between The Nature Conservancy in Arizona and in Mexico will help to protect the largest and most ecologically important of the fresh water sources of the fragile San Pedro River—which flows to the north from Mexico into southeastern Arizona—by 2006, representatives of the two programs announced today. The Conservancy has been working in several ways to protect the entire San Pedro River watershed for 30 years.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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February 02, 2005: Conservancy Supporters Receive Honor
Three friends of The Nature Conservancy recently received a Spirit of Philanthropy Award at the 2004 Philanthropy Leadership Awards sponsored by the Greater Arizona Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The awards were presented as part of National Philanthropy Day.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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January 06, 2005: The Nature Conservancy’s Work Helps Sustain the Upper San Pedro
The Upper San Pedro Partnership worked very closely with federal agencies on a report to Congress on ways to manage water for sustainable yield along the Upper San Pedro River near Sierra Vista.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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December 14, 2004: Governor's Water Listening Session/Tucson Media Fact Sheet
Holly Richter, Upper San Pedro Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy in Arizona comments on long-range water policy issues/recommendations includes link to map of "Loss of Natural Flow in Arizona’s Streams—Statistics".
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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November 24, 2004: New Market Tax Credits
In response to the poor ecological health of many Arizona forestlands, The Nature Conservancy of Arizona is teaming up with public agencies and economic development entities to utilize valuable tax credits to help develop a local market for the small diameter trees that are overcrowding Arizona’s forests.
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Pat Graham
Phone: (602) 712-0048
E-Mail: arizona@tnc.org
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November 22, 2004: Top Conservationists for 2004 Recognized
Four groups and individuals throughout the state recently received awards given annually by The Nature Conservancy in Arizona.
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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April 22, 2002: Arizona is One of the Most Biologically Diverse States in the Country
Nature Conservancy Report Finds That More Than 13 Percent of Species Face Risk of Extinction
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Tamera Skrovan
Phone: (602) 322-6996
(480) 415-3933 (Cell)
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
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March 20, 2002: Beware: There May Be Bad Plants In Your Tucson Backyard
The First Day of Spring Offers Everyone an Opportunity to Help Stop the Spread of Arizona's Worst Weeds
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Tamera Skrovan, The Nature Conservancy
Phone: (602) 322-6996
E-Mail: tskrovan@tnc.org
Sonoran Institute
Nina Chambers
Phone: (520) 290-0828
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