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

The FRIENDS OF THE SAN PEDRO RIVER (FSPR) is a volunteer, non-profit, non-political organization providing support to the BLM in their stewardship of the NCA.

The FRIENDS OF THE SAN PEDRO RIVER OFFERS:

	San Pedro House Books & Gifts 9800 Hwy. 90 at the River Open daily 9:30 - 4:30
	Guided walks, hikes, and trail rides, including a weekly interpretive walk from San Pedro House that starts at 8 am from 1 April through 30 September and at 9 am from 1 October through 31 March. Check out the latest Newsletter, that includes our Calendar of Upcoming Events (Adobe Acrobat Reader available from Adobe).
	Community Outreach and Schools programs. Visit the Globe web site, an educational site containing environmental information from over 100 nations, including data from the San Pedro House weather station!

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.

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 land’s 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.