Sentinel Landscape

From USFWS Southwest Region:

The Departments of Interior, Defense and Agriculture have designated the area around Fort Huachuca (Arizona) as a Sentinel Landscape. 

Within the Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape, the U.S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and DoD are working with the Arizona Land and Water Trust, the Arizona Department of Forestry, and more than 40 other local, state, and federal partners to discourage incompatible land development, preserve native grassland and working ranches, and ensure the availability of scarce groundwater resources for the entire region.

Priorities include grassland and wetland restoration efforts around the Babocomari and Upper San Pedro Rivers – key habitat for the Chiricahua leopard frog, yellow-billed cuckoo, southwestern flycatcher, ocelot, and jaguar; implementation of the State of Arizona’s Forest Action Plan; and conservation of nearly 5,000 acres of working ranchlands, all of which will buffer and protect Fort Huachuca’s mission as the leading unmanned aircraft system training center in the western United States.

Learn more at: http://sentinellandscapes.org/media/7305/fort-huachuca-fact-sheet.pdf

Fort Huachuca Sentinnel Landscape photo by: Michael Wystrach, Courtesy of Arizona Land and Water Trust