Goal One

Explore resources tied to Goal One of the ROSS, focused on ensuring a robust network of natural areas that sustain habitat, provide recreation, support clean air and water, and improve resilience to natural disasters.

Resources

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White Tank Connectivity Initiative

The White Tank Mountains Conservancy’s Regional Connectivity Initiative is a collaborative effort to envision, enable and sustain a landscape-scale plan to preserve natural wildlife corridors that connect the White Tank Mountains to other regional mountain ranges and surrounding open space.

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CAZCA Park System Profiles

This primer is designed to assist communities and open space advocates in crafting a compelling case for open space protection, find funding and start meaningful dialogue and assessment on this topic. The primer focuses on activities, information sources, talking points about the benefits of open space, successful local case studies, and key messaging strategies that can be incorporated in a case statement.

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CAZCA Open Space Primer

This primer is designed to assist communities and open space advocates in crafting a compelling case for open space protection, find funding and start meaningful dialogue and assessment on this topic. The primer focuses on activities, information sources, talking points about the benefits of open space, successful local case studies, and key messaging strategies that can be incorporated in a case statement.

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CAZCA Urban Vision

Urban areas are dominated by the built environment, and any remaining open spaces that provide valuable social and ecological functions are increasingly fragmented and threatened by sprawling urban growth. In this project, Caleb Carpenter develops a model for identifying and prioritizing potential corridors based on social and ecological criteria and applies it to the Phoenix Metropolitan area, which is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States. This urban vision can inform the regional open spaces vision and individual community’s future land use planning.
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CAZCA Greenprint

The Greenprint was developed to support local jurisdictions, land managers, and other natural resource stakeholders in understanding their natural resource assets. This reports outlines the data in the tool and suggests some ways in which it supports planning and prioritization, communications and marketing, and as a tool for stakeholder engagement processes.

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CAZCA Strategy on Open Space

Take a look at the CAZCA Fact Sheet.

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Conservation Opportunity Areas in Central Arizona

The Central Arizona Conservation Alliance brought together ecological data and expert opinion to describe what a hypothetical network of open spaces could look like through the identification of conservation opportunity areas (COAs).

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CAZCA is an initiative of Desert Botanical Garden. Any donations made to CAZCA must be made through Desert Botanical Garden. You will now be taken to their website to complete this transaction. Thank you!
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