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Check out Mike Foster's videos celebrating the diversity
of the San Pedro River. Our featured videos are
Flood and
Our River of Life. FSPR offers higher quality DVDs available for
purchase of the following videos:
Javelina,
Beaver,
Birds, and
Plants...
Buy now!.
Boquillas Event set for October 4th
On Saturday Oct 4th, the Friends of the San Pedro will be hosting a
members only annual meeting, barbecue and equestrian ride at the
historic Little Boquillas Ranch. Members will be shuttled from the
Fairbank parking lot to the ranch. The board of directors will be
serving the main course and everyone else is asked to bring a potluck
item to share. Members will tour the ranch, learn the history and
enjoy live music under the shade trees in the courtyard.
If you are planning to attend, please rsvp to Nancy Doolittle @
456-1362 or the Friends office @ 459-2555.
You may be interested in the
Friends of Sonoita Creek
web site and their
schedule of Spring events.
Welcome to the Friends of the San Pedro Homepage
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Recreational opportunities for: Birding,
Hiking, Biking, Horseback Riding, and more along 40 miles of
lush riparian habitat.
Visit the historic sites of Fairbank and Charleston,
or the pre-historic mammoth kill site at Murray Springs. |
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The San Pedro Riparian National
Conservation Area (NCA)
Congress designated the San Pedro National
Conservation Area (NCA), containing about 40 miles of upper San Pedro River, on November
18, 1988. The primary purpose for the establishment of the area is to conserve, protect
and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive
network of similar riparian systems throughout the Southwest. |
"Riparian"
describes an area where plants and animals thrive because of an availability of water,
either at or near the lands surface. Riparian areas are the shores of lakes and
reservoirs, the banks and flood plains of intermittent or perennial streams, rivers, and
springs.
The NCA supports over 350 species of
birds, 80+ species of mammals, two native and several introduced species of fish, and more
than 40 species of amphibians and reptiles.
Under the stewardship of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the NCA
contains more than 56,000 acres of public land in Cochise County, Arizona between the
U.S.- Mexican border and St. David. |

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call the BLM at
(520) 439-6400 or Contact the Friends by calling (520) 459-2555, write Friends of the San Pedro River at 1763 Paseo San Luis,
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 or send e-mail to fspr@sanpedroriver.org. |
This page was last updated on 06/20/08.
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