Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape Conservation
Project Information
Year Awarded: Fiscal Year 2021
USDA Funding: $8,441,558.00
Partner-Contributed Funding: $9,426,000.00
Project Timeline: 2022-2026
RCPP Conservation Activities: Land Management Contracts and Easements
Arizona Counties: Portions of Cochise and Santa Cruz Counties
Lead Partner: Arizona Land and Water Trust
Collaborating Partners: Bureau of Land Management Gila District, Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
Summary
This RCPP project seeks to work collaboratively with partners to protect and enhance the natural resources of the area. This will be done through the use of easements, education, outreach, and increased enrollment in land management activities. This project will help preserve the areas large working ranches, wildlife habitat, open spaces, and rural livelihoods. The project will draw on extensive watershed and water resource research and conservation actions in the focus area to further water resource management. The partners in this project will increase participation in and productivity of conservation collaboration, maximize efficiency of conservation funding and minimize conservation action redundancy.
Resource Concerns
Concentrated erosion, fire management, livestock production limitation, long term protection of land, terrestrial habitat (must be included in all applications), weather resilience, wind and water erosion
Conservation Practices Offered
- 314 - Brush Management
- 382 - Fencing
- 384 - Woody Residue Treatment
- 449 - Irrigation Water Management
- 484 - Mulching
- 500 - Obstruction Removal
- 516 - Livestock Pipeline
- 528 - Prescribed Grazing
- 533 - Pumping Plant
- 580 - Streambank and Shoreline Protection
- 584 - Channel Bed Stabilization
- 587 - Structures for Water Control
- 614 - Watering Facility
- 642 - Water Well
- 645 - Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
- 649 - Structures for Wildlife
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