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A Vital Community Resource: Introducing SCOTie
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Pioneering New Approaches to Working Landscapes
Working farms and ranches can add substantial value to landscape conservation in the West. The Institute has begun working with the Fort Union Ranch in New Mexico.
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Garfield County Community Development Academy
The Community Development Academy (CDA) is an eight-week, interactive course presented in Garfield County by the Sonoran Institute. The course will cover important planning and development issues in the current economy with an emphasis on linking community and economic development goals.
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Help Save the “American Nile” – the Colorado River Delta
We need your help to support the preservation of an essential life-supporting ecosystem – the Colorado River Delta.
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Featured Video - Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal
Support the Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal
The Sonoran Institute and partners have launched a major conservation initiative in Arizona called the Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal. Building on the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act of 1990, the goal is to permanently protect key areas of the Sonoran Desert in W. Maricopa County. Find out more by clicking here.
Defending the Desert
January 2012 - “We use our natural environment here to market Arizona and our resorts, to market our golf courses, but when it comes to really cherishing it, we fall down a little bit,” says Eric Gorsegner of the Sonoran Institute, one of the organizations spearheading The Sonoran Desert Heritage proposal.
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Click here to find out more about the Sonoran Desert Heritage proposal.
Core Values - Creating Prosperity from a Community's Center
Creating Prosperity from a Community's Center
The work of the Sonoran Institute has been built on the conviction that conservation brings not only environmental health, but also enduring economic prosperity to communities in the West. Never in our 20-year history has this message been more timely.
Read more: Core Values - Creating Prosperity from a Community's Center
Local Conservation Progress in the Northern Rockies
January 2010 – Two big wins in the Northern Rockies, including smart growth and open space conservation.
Read more: Local Conservation Progress in the Northern Rockies
The Backbone of the World
December 2010 - Helping to bring people together so they can collaborate in caring for the landscape they all love was the driving force behind a recent Sonoran Institute policy report, Remarkable Beyond Borders: People and Landscapes in the Crown of the Continent.
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