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- Library Collection RecordIn this memorandum to the Pima County Board of Supervisors, C.H. Huckelberry, the current Pima County Administrator, clarifies the County's perspective on the continuation of ranching activities…Publication Date 2016
- endangered species
- ranching
- Endangered Species Act
- open space
- Library Collection RecordThis presentation includes photos from 1999 and 2015 of gabions constructed in the Altar Valley located south of Tucson, Arizona.Publication Date 2015
- erosion control
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordThis tour takes participants to several stops throughout the Altar Valley including the Contest Well, the San Simone Fan Structure, the Timber Draw Dam Site,the Goat Well Drop Structure, and the San…Publication Date 2015
- watershed management
- erosion control
- grassland management
- Library Collection RecordThis document sets out to evaluate the potential for treating 230 acres of abandoned farmland in the Northern Altar Wash Project Area and contains an assessment of treatment techniques used in the…Publication Date 2015
- erosion control
- revegetation
- floodplains
- desert soils
- Library Collection RecordThis short presentation includes a description of the drop structure installed on Greenbush draw at Naco, Arizona and includes several photos of the erosion control structure and the surrounding…Publication Date 2015
- erosion control
- riparian vegetation
- Library Collection RecordWorld Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) is focused on the development and dissemination of sustainable land management (SLM) practices. The organization is recognized by…Publication Date 2015
- sustainable land management
- erosion control
- Sustainable development
- sustainable agriculture
- management techniques
- Best Practices
- Library Collection RecordThis press release covers an agreement signed by the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance (Alliance) and Sierrita Gas Pipeline, LLC (Sierrita) regarding the Sierrita Lateral Pipeline Project in Altar…Publication Date 2014
- erosion control
- revegetation
- ecological restoration
- Library Collection RecordThis document details Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC's plan to mitigate impacts within the project area resulting from construction. Short-term goals include minimizing erosion and sedimentation…Publication Date 2014
- reclamation
- erosion control
- revegetation
- endangered species
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordIn this letter, Steve Carson gives a brief overview of the history of roads in the West and the role they have played in altering watershed dynamics. With the widespread damage to watersheds that…Publication Date 2014
- erosion control
- drainage systems
- road construction
- watershed management
- Library Collection RecordThis proposal outlines several projects aimed at evaluating the impacts of the Sierrita Gas Pipeline on vegetation, erosion, and the geomorphic characteristics of washes bisected by the construction.Publication Date 2014
- revegetation
- erosion control
- reclamation
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- ecological restoration
- Library Collection RecordAs Kasulaitis puts it, in the early 1800s "Arivaca was a ranch, not a town." The Ortis family had a 8,896 acre land grant that covered most of the valley and raised cattle, but when three…Publication Date 2014
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Elkhorn/Las Delicias Watershed Restoration Demonstration Project (Elk/LD Demo Project) showcases planning, installation, and monitoring of watershed restoration practices in ephemeral arroyos and…Publication Date 2014
- erosion control
- watershed management
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordIn this letter, Patricia King and Mary Miller of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance communicate their concerns over the lack of specific watershed stability standards and monitoring protocol…Publication Date 2014
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- energy development
- erosion control
- monitoring techniques
- restoration
- United States
- Watershed Stability
- Library Collection RecordThis article tells the story of the Santa Lucia Ranch and the people who called it home. Originally homesteaded by Gabriel E. Angulo, Jr. in 1921, the Santa Lucia was located near the confluence of…Publication Date 2013
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis presentation provides a brief summary of Feldman's Master's thesis work in the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- culture
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordEmphasizing the critical role watershed stability monitoring will play in ensuring the success of post-construction restoration efforts, the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance (AVCA) urges the…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- energy development
- erosion control
- United States
- Watershed Stability
- Library Collection Record"The purpose of this book is to insure a deep appreciation of the eight-valley region in southern Arizona and to raise awareness of the various watershed organizations taking action to improve…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- land management
- land use
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide provides extensive examples of soil bio-engineering structures that can be used for slope stabilization including vegetated retaining walls, hedge layering, sodding, gully head…Publication Date 2012
- erosion control
- Erosion control plants
- soil stabilization
- Soil stabilizing plants
- gully erosion
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief overview of what life was like in Arivaca after 1912. Arivaca was essentially a company town of the Arivaca Land and Cattle Company (ALCC). The ALCC owned the town store…Publication Date 2012
- ranching
- history
- cattle
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAn isolated and beautiful valley located on the west side of the Atascosa Mountains, Bear Valley was first settled by John “Yank†Bartlett who, along with his partner Henry “Hank†Hewitt and…Publication Date 2011
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis commentary compares two regions of the United States that differ drastically in physical attributes, but, in the authors' eyes, are united by a common "environment of risk."…Publication Date 2011
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cultural landscapes
- ranching
- risk environment
- rural anthropology
- social sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThis article continues the story of the Kellner family, opening just as John F. Kellner leases his ranch, and sells the store and boarding house before moving the family to Casa Grande.Publication Date 2011
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more vegetation…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- erosion control
- Landscape degradation
- New Mexico
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more vegetation…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- erosion control
- Landscape degradation
- New Mexico
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordLet the Water Do the Work is an important contribution to riparian restoration. By "thinking like a creek," one can harness the regenerative power of floods to reshape stream banks and…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- erosion control
- erosion control structures
- New Mexico
- stream restoration
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more vegetation…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- erosion control
- Landscape degradation
- New Mexico
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordBy the mid-1990s, debates over the region's damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits, and even death-threats. Those who wanted to work the land and those who wanted to…Publication Date 2008
- Arizona
- conservation
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBy the mid-1990s, debates over the region's damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits, and even death-threats. Those who wanted to work the land and those who wanted to…Publication Date 2008
- Arizona
- conservation
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe proceedings of the High Altitude Revegetation Workshop include various articles presented at the conference regarding oil, gas, and mining reclamation, wetland and riparian area concerns,…Publication Date 2008
- revegetation
- reclamation
- invasive species
- mining
- erosion control
- Soil improvement
- Library Collection RecordThis document includes maps of vegetation cover, precipitation, land ownership, air quality, and other landscape components in the Altar Valley from the Rapid Watershed Assessment (RWA) for the…Publication Date 2008
- watershed management
- erosion control
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordThis article describes Ranch Road Workshops led by Bill Zeedyk and hosted by the Quivira Collalition, as well as some of the water harvesting techniques they cover.Publication Date 2007
- erosion control
- New Mexico
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordApproaching rangelands as working landscapes begins from the premise that people and the environment shape each other over time. Sustainable management is therefore not only an ecological but also a…Publication Date 2007
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- ranching
- United States
- working landscapes
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: The modern American West is one of the most contested landscapes in the world, yet anthropologists are just beginning to grapple with its dynamic political ecology. Since World War II, the…Publication Date 2007
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- endangered species
- ranching
- United States
- urban sprawl
- Library Collection RecordThis book addresses the construction and maintenance of unpaved rural roads including strategies, techniques and practices for dealing with problems frequently encountered by landowners,…Publication Date 2006
- erosion control
- New Mexico
- soil erosion
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordThis book addresses the construction and maintenance of unpaved rural roads including strategies, techniques and practices for dealing with problems frequently encountered by landowners,…Publication Date 2006
- erosion control
- New Mexico
- soil erosion
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordThis book addresses the construction and maintenance of unpaved rural roads including strategies, techniques and practices for dealing with problems frequently encountered by landowners,…Publication Date 2006
- erosion control
- New Mexico
- soil erosion
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordThis book addresses the construction and maintenance of unpaved rural roads including strategies, techniques and practices for dealing with problems frequently encountered by landowners,…Publication Date 2006
- erosion control
- New Mexico
- soil erosion
- United States
- water harvesting
- Library Collection RecordRanching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and valueâ…Publication Date 2006
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- cattle
- endangered species
- ranching
- restoration
- United States
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordIn this article Kasulaitis follows Eugenio and Angelita Pina and their children as they make a new life for themselves in Southern Arizona in the early 1900s. Typical of the area, ranching and…Publication Date 2006
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- farming
- history
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Compared to more productive rangelands, both domestic livestock grazing impacts and grazing management strategies are poorly documented in the scientific literature for the Sonoran…Publication Date 2005
- Arizona
- environmental impact
- grazing
- grazing management strategies
- ranching
- Sonoran Desert
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBefore being purchased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1985, the Buenos Aires Ranch was home to one of the largest cattle operations in the United States. This article focuses on the Gill…Publication Date 2005
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Gully erosion attracts increasing attention from scientists as reflected by two recent international meetings [Poesen and Valentin (Eds.), Catena 50 (2–4), 87–564; Li et al., 2004.…Publication Date 2005
- gully erosion
- land use
- Sediment
- soil crusts
- erosion control
- Reservoirs
- Library Collection RecordA brief opinion piece, this article takes a closer look at the increasingly common policy debate surrounding the urban-rural interface, focusing particularly on the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- open space
- public policy
- ranching
- United States
- urban sprawl
- Library Collection Record"There is a story almost totally unknown outside the West, but urgently discussed every day now in the western press: the story of a steadily growing number of local agreements among western…Publication Date 2003
- New Mexico
- ranching
- range management
- rangeland ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRanching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and valueâ…Publication Date 2002
- Arizona
- endangered species
- ranching
- Southwest
- United States
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordIn this article, Sayre gives a history of the cattle boom in Southern Arizona, examining its political and environmental impacts.Publication Date 1999
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cattle
- environmental impacts
- political ecology
- ranching
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document is the transcript of a presentation given by Thomas Sheridan for one of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan Steering Committee's Education Sessions. In this presentation Dr.…Publication Date 1999
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- conservation
- open space
- ranching
- United States
- urban planning
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordThis document serves as the final report to the Arizona Department of Water Resources on a restoration project undertaken along the Puerto Cito Wash. The project involved the construction of gabions…Publication Date 1999
- erosion control
- revegetation
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordAbstract This conference was designed to provide a non-confrontational setting for a variety of people from differing viewpoints to discuss the threats facing arid grasslands of the Southwest.…Publication Date 1996
- arid grasslands
- Arizona
- Arizona grassland
- erosion control
- exotic species
- invasive species
- United States
- water quality
- wildfire management
- wildlife
- Library Collection RecordPowerful case studies from the borderlands indicate people’s willingness and ability to move beyond simplistic dichotomies of ‘use’ vs. ‘conservation,’ and toward a working West that…Publication Date 1995
- collaboration
- conservation
- grazing
- management
- ranching
- United States