Interior Secretary Gale Norton has awarded $1,178,702 in matching grants to Arizona Game and Fish Department to work in partnership with private or municipal landowners for the conservation of threatened and endangered species.
The grants are designed to give local communities greater flexibility to conserve species at risk while reducing conflicts between conservation and land development. Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act provides funds to States and territories, and through them, to communities and individuals, for species and habitat recovery actions on non-Federal lands.
"These grants are very much in line with my philosophy that states should be given more resources and greater flexibility to protect habitat and conserve threatened and endangered species," said Secretary Norton. "States will use these grants to strengthen and build vital and cost-effective conservation partnerships with local communities and willing private landowners - partnerships that are essential to helping species prosper and recover."
Here is a list of the Arizona projects that will be funded with these grants:
Development of a Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan for the Malpai Borderlands Region
(Malpai Borderlands, AZ and NM)
