Overview

The Sonoran Institute will host the one-week workshop, which includes travel days on Monday and Friday. Tuesday, Wednesday will each engage key participants with workshop goals & objectives. Thursday is a working day for the National Park Service planning group to develop strategy and work plan for the Inventory and Monitoring networks.

Primary focus of the workshop will be twenty-three arid land park units in and near the Desert Landscape Conservation Coooperative, including parks within the Chihuahuan Desert, Mojave Desert, and Sonoran Desert Networks. Partner parks include: Amistad National Recreation Area, Big Bend National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Death Valley National Park, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Fort Davis National Historic Site, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, Great Basin National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Manzanar National Historic Site, Mojave National Preserve, Montezuma Castle National Monument, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Saguaro National Park, Tonto National Monument, Tumacacori National Historical Park, Tuzigoot National Monument, White Sands National Monument.

Key Partners will include Bureau of Land Management, Department of Defense, US Geological Survey, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, Sonoran Desert Regional Monitoring Partnership, Pima County, and the Desert Managers Group.