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- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is an introduction to grazing management designed to help landowners, contractors, and agency personnel make better grassland management decisions. Grazing can have a deleterious…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- grazing
- New Mexico
- range management
- rangeland health
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is an introduction to grazing management designed to help landowners, contractors, and agency personnel make better grassland management decisions. Grazing can have a deleterious…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- grazing
- New Mexico
- range management
- rangeland health
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide is an introduction to grazing management designed to help landowners, contractors, and agency personnel make better grassland management decisions. Grazing can have a deleterious…Publication Date 2009
- Arizona
- grazing
- New Mexico
- range management
- rangeland health
- United States
- 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 RecordOur focus is on the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain Region including the Great Basin, Columbia Plateau, Colorado Plateau, and surrounding areas. The climate of this large, arid to semiarid region…Publication Date 2008
- United States
- Library Collection RecordEmphasizing water's importance to Pima County's plant, animal and human populations, this report aimed to establish priorities for a possible expansion of the county's aquifer…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document provides a brief overview of the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl's habitat, range, and some of the reasons for its decline.Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Effective conservation requires efficient population monitoring, which can be challenging for rare species like the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). We compared two alternative survey…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Gopherus agassizii
- monitoring techniques
- Sonoran Desert Tortoise
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report contains quantitative and qualitative information on natrural resource conditions within the watershed. This information has been used to develop a watershed profile and to determine the…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cumulative watershed effects
- grazing
- land use
- soil erosion
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report contains quantitative and qualitative information on natrural resource conditions within the watershed. This information has been used to develop a watershed profile and to determine the…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cumulative watershed effects
- grazing
- land use
- soil erosion
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe plan summarizes types of land ownership (public, tribal, county and other), vegetation, species, and details for prescribed burns and monitoring. Source: http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/…Publication Date 2007
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Desert Grassland
- fire management
- Management Plan
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document is the draft Environmental Assessment for the Altar Valley fire management plan, a required step in the NEPA process.Publication Date 2007
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- fire management
- NEPA
- United States
- Library Collection RecordDescriptions of the Historical Range of Variation or Variability (HRV) characterize the change over time and space in the condition of the Southwest’s major vegetation types and the ecological…Publication Date 2007
- Arizona
- climate change
- environmental modeling
- land use change
- Semi-Desert Grassland
- United States
- Vegetation Change
- Library Collection RecordThis press release provides a brief overview of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's review of the Pima Pineapple Cactus' endangered status. The Service determined that the species should…Publication Date 2007
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Coryphantha scheeri
- endangered status
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- United States
- Library Collection RecordIncludes appendices. Describes the partnerships with federal, state, local and tribal agencies to clean up damages caused by the illegal immigrants including removal of almost 1.2 million pounds of…Publication Date 2006
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- immigration
- mitigation
- restoration
- United States
- 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 RecordThis federal register notice details the delisting of the Arizona Distinct Population Segment of the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl.Publication Date 2006
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- Endangered Species Act
- United States
- Library Collection Record"Between 2001 and 2005, a collaborative, science-based restoration treatment project - called Rincon Ortiz CFRP - was successfully implemented on three hundred acres of ponderosa/pinon-juniper…Publication Date 2006
- Community involvement
- forest health
- New Mexico
- restoration
- United States
- Library Collection Record"Between 2001 and 2005, a collaborative, science-based restoration treatment project - called Rincon Ortiz CFRP - was successfully implemented on three hundred acres of ponderosa/pinon-juniper…Publication Date 2006
- Community involvement
- forest health
- New Mexico
- restoration
- 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 RecordAbstract—Pima pineapple cactus (PPC) (Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina), a federally listed endangered species, occurs throughout southeastern Arizona and has relatively low population…Publication Date 2005
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- endangered species
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- pollination biology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2004
- Colorado
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe details of Pima County's acquisition of the Bucklew Farm properties which sit at the northern end of the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis study reviews BLM’s fire management plans for Arizona, assessing the accuracy, standardization, and ecological relevance of current Phase I fire management areas. This second report…Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Desert Graslands
- fire management
- fire regime
- United States
- woody encroachment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract—The Apache Highlands ecoregion incorporates the entire Madrean Archipelago/Sky Island region. We analyzed the current distribution of 223 target species and 26 terrestrial ecological…Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- biodiversity
- fire regime
- grasslands
- native plant diversity
- New Mexico
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract—The Apache Highlands ecoregion incorporates the entire Madrean Archipelago/Sky Island region. We analyzed the current distribution of 223 target species and 26 terrestrial ecological…Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- biodiversity
- fire regime
- grasslands
- native plant diversity
- New Mexico
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report examines the issues surrounding public land ranching and current grazing policy and practice. Calling for broader environmental justice in Northern New Mexico, Atencio discusses the…Publication Date 2004
- collaborative management
- grazing
- New Mexico
- public lands
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report examines the issues surrounding public land ranching and current grazing policy and practice. Calling for broader environmental justice in Northern New Mexico, Atencio discusses the…Publication Date 2004
- collaborative management
- grazing
- New Mexico
- public lands
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Public debate about how, and whether, to graze southern Arizona's desert grasslands has been ongoing for decades. Increases in ecological knowledge and the creation of public…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- grazing
- United States
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands of central and southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico, an area known as the Apache Highlands Ecoregion, have undergone dramatic vegetation changes over the last 130…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- conservation planning
- Desert Grassland
- native grasslands
- New Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- United States
- Vegetation Change
- Library Collection RecordThis article covers the conviction of Mary Darling, an environmental consultant, for violating the federal Lacey Act. Darling admitted to moving 30 Pima Pineapple Cacti from land scheduled for…Publication Date 2003
- Arizona
- Coryphantha scheeri
- Lacey Act
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge will be used as management tool which will guide management activities for the next 15 years. Specifics of the…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cultural resources
- fire management
- grassland
- United States
- wildlife
- Library Collection RecordThis news release documents the creation of the first private endangered species conservation bank approved by the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the Pima Pineapple Cactus. A parcel of land on the…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Conservation Bank
- mitigation
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAn article about cheatgrass invading the Great Plains.Publication Date 2001
- invasive species
- drought
- wildfires
- cheatgrass
- Great Plains
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Altar Valley has been identified as an important conservation area for wildlife, plants and the ranching way of life. Debate over issues related to open space, urban development, urban planning,…Publication Date 2001
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document is made up of numerous resource reports that were submitted to the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan Steering Committee regarding the natural and cultural resources of the Altar Valley…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA synthesis of resource assessments, this report details the unique characteristics that make the Altar Valley of special conservation importance including the highest number of priority vulnerable…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report represents several years of field-based studies performed in Southern Arizona centering on the population dynamics of the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. The Altar Valley is among the study…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document represents a compilation of expert writings by professionals in the field of natural resource management. Chapters address a variety of topics, centering on the ecological and economic…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document was complied to highlight the crucial role ranching can play in conservation efforts in Pima County. It includes sections covering the history and current practice of ranching in…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cattle Ranching
- conservation
- open space
- United States
- urban planning
- Library Collection RecordThis report, contracted by Pima County and completed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, analyzes the results of several years of field studies focused on the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl in…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- dispersal
- habitat corridors
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report, contracted by Pima County and completed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, analyzes the results of several years of field studies focused on the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl in…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- dispersal
- habitat corridors
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: This report is the result of a cooperative effort by the Rocky Mountain Research Station and the USDA Forest Service Region 3, with participation by the Arizona Game and Fish Department…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- conservation
- threatened species
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article reviews the introduction and spread of Lehmann Lovegrass throughout the Altar Valley as well as the mixed results of a variety of management techniques on the Buenos Aires National…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- invasive species
- Lehmann lovegrass
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis map provides information on the distribution of plant communities within the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- vegetation communities
- Library Collection RecordThis map provides information on the soil types present in the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Soil Type
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis map describes rangeland condition across the Altar Valley using seven categories that incorporate soil stability, biotic integrity and watershed function.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- biotic integrity
- rangeland condition
- soil stability
- United States
- watershed function