Contact Name: Dale Turner Contact the project owner using: ConPro's Form Emailer Contact Organization: The Nature Conservancy

Project Start Date: January 01, 2003 Data Effective Date: June 30, 2005 Sharing Status: This project may be shared outside of TNC.

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Project Description:
This report documents a preliminary assessment of biodiversity values for portions of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Yuma Resource Management Area, including a large Sonoran Desert landscape, the Expanded Kofa Complex. The Expanded Kofa Complex is an area of approximately 2.7 million acres (1.1 million hectares) within the BLM Yuma Resource Management Area that includes large blocks of land managed by the BLM, the U. S. Army at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The assessment results contribute to the development of a biodiversity management framework for the Expanded Kofa Complex. The initial steps of framework development reported here - conservation element selection, status, and potential threat identification - provide the preceding federal agencies and the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) with information that can facilitate their ability to work individually and cooperatively, but still within the bounds of their individual missions, to manage and conserve the biological diversity (biodiversity) of the region.

Team Info:
Stephanie Weinstein
Anne Gondor
John A. Hall

Results and Lessons Learned Summary:
To support agency land management planning (US Army [Yuma Proving Ground], US Fish and Wildlife Service [Kofa National Wildlife Refuge], and BLM), the Conservancy prepared a: Preliminary Assessment of Biodiversity Values and Management Framework Adaptation for the Expanded Kofa Complex and Yuma Resource Management Area in Southwestern Arizona, revised version, February 2004.

^* For information on the common taxonomy of threats, see http://conservationmeasures.org/CMP/IUCN/.