Protect our Sonoran Desert and Ironwood National Monument!

The Sonoran Desert is home to many unique and rare plants and animals, including desert bighorn sheep, desert tortoise, sonoran pronghorn, saguaro cactus, and ironwood trees, as well as the endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl. Rapid population growth and other human modifications of the environment now threaten many species found in the Sonoran Desert.

But we can do better. In order to protect our precious desert for ourselves and future generations to enjoy and explore, we are working to ensure the strongest species and habitat protections possible under the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. This habitat conservation plan, being developed by Pima County and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is a public process which enables citizens just like you to help decide the future of land use in Pima County outside the Tohono O'odham reservation. Visit the Home of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan.

Part of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan is the protection of Ironwood Forest National Monument, a biological and cultural gem, located near Tucson. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently crafting a management plan for this monument. In order to protect the monument from nearby sprawl, mining, off-road vehicle abuses, and other harmful practices, it is critical that the BLM receives public comments urging adoption of the strongest conservation alternative in the Monument Management Plan.

Protecting the Sonoran Desert for our families and our future is a great opportunity and a great challenge. Please join us-get involved and help ensure that our children will enjoy the same quality of life that we do now.

		We can protect Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
	Ask the Bureau of Land Management for a strong Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. For more information on the Sierra Club's work on Arizona's Sonoran Desert, please contact
	Julie Sherman Sierra Club 738 N. 5th Avenue, Suite 214 Tucson, AZ 85705 620-6401 julie.sherman@sierraclub.org

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