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Español Rio Sonoyta Bird Monitoring and Community Outreach Project
Project Description Rio Sonoyta, a rare lowland desert stream and spring that supports important riparian and migratory bird assemblages and endangered native fishes and turtles, faces major threats such as groundwater withdrawal, unmet infrastructure needs (e.g., modern sewage treatment facilities), and invasive exotic species. Maintaining and improving function of the Rio Sonoyta ecosystem is critical
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Expansion of the Little Greenhouse Project
Project Description The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has cooperated with other agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation in the planting of native cottonwood and willow poles on Havasu National Wildlife Refuge on the lower Colorado River. The Refuge has a nursery of cottonwood and willow trees which
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Riparian and Madrean Pine-Oak Avian Monitoring at Habitat Restoration Sites, Villa Verde and Los Campitos, Sonora, Mexico
Project Description This project continues and expands bird monitoring efforts at the Villa Verde and Los Campitos drainages, both in the Sonoran Upper San Pedro Watershed. This project is three-fold in scope. First, funds will be used for outreach efforts to landowners to extend bird monitoring efforts to newly identified critical habitat sites. This will
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Habitat enhancement for endangered rails at the Ciénega de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico
Project Description The Ciénega de Santa Clara is the largest marsh wetland in the Sonoran Desert, extending over 5,800 hectares. It supports nearly 75% of the total population of the Yuma Clapper Rail, an endemic marshbird of the Lower Colorado River and its delta that is protected as Endangered in the United States and Threatened
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Villa Verde restoration site monitoring, Sonora, Mexico
Project Description Much of the conservation work in the San Pedro Watershed of Arizona stops at the U.S. border, and areas located just a few miles south remain almost unknown. Villa Verde, a main tributary to the Upper San Pedro River, is located approximately 25 km southeast of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
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