Restoration Activities
Conservation Areas
The initial years of the program focused on securing partnerships with resource agencies to ensure adequate land and water resources were available to create habitat and provide for its long term maintenance. Following a logical and standardized method to identify and select areas for restoration, 11 conservation areas are now in the program or being considered for inclusion into the program. Areas selected for restoration are referred to as Conservation Areas and are distributed over 276 river miles from Laughlin, Nevada, to the boundary with Mexico.
The Conservation Areas range from 1,352 acres of a cottonwood-willow-honey mesquite area, to over 200 acres of marsh, and 15 acres of backwater dedicated to native fish. They are located in Arizona, California, and Nevada and include partnerships with Federal refuges, state resource agencies, Native Tribes, irrigation districts, and local governments. Click here for a location map.
Links to each of the Conservation Areas are as follows:- Beal Lake Conservation Area
- Big Bend Conservation Area
- Cibola NWR Unit #1
- Cibola Valley Conservation Area
- Hart Mine Marsh
- Hunters Hole
- Imperial Ponds Conservation Area
- Laguna Division Conservation Area
- Palo Verde Ecological Reserve
- Pretty Water Conservation Area
Conservation Areas currently being evaluated for inclusion into the LCR MSCP are:
- Yuma East Wetlands
- Planet Ranch
| Click on the arrows to view Planet Ranch's work tasks and technical reports |
| Work Tasks |
| FY11 Work Task / FY09 Accomplishments |
| FY10 Work Task |
| FY05 Work Task - see FY05 Accomplishments |
| Technical Report |
| Planet Ranch - Preliminary Site Analysis and Conceptual Design: 2005 (10/30/06) |
Conservation Areas that were evaluated and not included in the program at this time are at this link.
Updated December 20, 2012