About Us

Partners

Encouraging, facilitating, and celebrating partnership is the heart of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance’s work.
About Us

Partners

Encouraging, facilitating, and celebrating partnership is the heart of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance’s work.

Cooperate, collaborate, communicate – the big Cs of 21st century conservation. Ecosystem and watershed dynamics, land ownership patterns, and legal and regulatory affairs draw individuals and organizations together in ever more complex webs of relationship. Doing business in land and resource management today is all about partnerships. The big Cs are the grease that make partnerships happen.

Encouraging, facilitating, and celebrating partnership is the heart of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance’s work. How do we do this work? We pull people together to talk and work around the watershed. Community Meetings are held to give people the chance to know each other and exchange information. Project work is designed to bring representatives from different agricultural operations and agencies together, often accompanied by scientists. Project grants combine resources from different partners.

This long list of partners represents the cast of characters at work here in the Altar Valley watershed. Partners don’t always agree, nor do they necessarily fully support each other’s point of view. The key is to find the common ground, the win-win zone, and work there. With this strategy, opportunity and action can emerge from complexity and gridlock.

Altar Valley Agricultural Operations

Arivaca Ranch
Arivaca Boys Ranch
Baboquivari Peak Ranch and Palo Alto Ranch
Buckelew Farm (Pima County)
Chilton Ranch – Arivaca
Diamond Bell Ranch (Pima County)
Elkhorn Ranch
Jarillas Ranch
King’s Anvil Ranch
Kings 98 and Old Hayhook Ranch (Pima County)
Marley Ranch (including some Pima County lands)
McGee Ranch and Sierrita Mining and Ranching
Noon Ranch
Old Hayhook Ranch (Pima County)
Rancho de la Osa
Rancho El Mirador
Rancho Seco (Pima County)
Santa Lucia Ranch (Pima County)
Santa Margarita Ranch
Southern Arizona Rangeland Honey
Stockwell Honey Company
(Ranches denoted as Pima County are now owned by the County through the Conservation Lands System, and managed by operators. Learn more here.)

Partner Organizations