Conserving Arizona’s Wild Connections

Introduction and focus.

Wild Arizona is leveraging the expanded organizational reach and resources of our merger to elevate and empower a new framework we call Wild Connections: landscape and waterway protections within regional-scale corridors for sustaining wildlife, wilderness recreation, and indigenous communities. In 2024, we are launching new, or continuing ongoing projects, within four priority Wild Connections: Verde-San Pedro; Grand Canyon-Gila; Southern Sky Islands; Colorado River.

01

Grand Canyon to Gila:

Defending Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
Working toward closure of Pinyon Plain Mine

 

02

Verde to San Pedro

Wild & Scenic River designation for the Upper Verde River
03

Colorado River

Post 2026 Colorado River Operations EIS
Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Triennial Work Plan and Budget
The Colorado River in Grand Canyon, a map and guide, by Larry Stevens, 2024 printing
Riparian Restoration at Paria Beach and in the Glen Canyon Reach 

04 

Southern Sky Islands

Protecting and stewarding the Sky Islands of southern Arizona