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Join Us at Feathered Friends and Smart Living Festival, Sat April 5
With all the beautiful weather and things to do, come join the Arizona Riparian Council at the Water Ranch Riparian Preserve for the 2014 Feathered Friends and Smart Living Festival in Gilbert, AZ. We will have our booth there with all of the other fun activities for families. From 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in Gilbert at…
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Join the Council at Dragonfly Day 2014 on March 29, 2014
Dip into Dragonfly Day and discover a magical river just minutes from the heart of downtown Phoenix. The Saturday, March 29th event runs from 10AM to 2PM at the Phoenix Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area gateway located at 2439 S. Central Avenue and celebrates this year’s crop of dragonflies, newly arrived Monarch butterflies, native birds,…
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Annual Meeting will be in Fall 2014
The Arizona Riparian Council typically has its annual meeting around April. I’m sure many of you are wondering why you haven’t heard about an upcoming spring meeting. Well the truth is we are still in the planning stages.
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26th Annual Meeting, Skysong, Scottsdale – April 4-6, 2013
Sustaining Urban Rivers — Visions and Actions across the Southwest: Application for the Salt River through the Phoenix Metro Area The 26th Annual Meeting of the Arizona Riparian Council was co-hosted by the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research Project and the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. It was held April 4-6,…
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The Triennial Review of Surface Water Quality Standards
What is the Triennial Review? The Clean Water Act requires that surface water quality standards be reviewed and updated, if necessary, every three years through a rulemaking process known as the “Triennial Review”. Proposed revisions to the standards are published for review by the public and local, state and federal agencies before beginning the formal…
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2012 – Fall Campout Meeting
The 2012 Fall Campout Meeting was held October 27-28 in conjunction with the Sky Island Alliance. The Arizona Riparian Council assisted the Alliance in their Spring Assessment and Management Planning Project. We learned the spring assessment technique from Dr. Larry Stevens, Spring Stewardship Institute, Museum of Northern Arizona on Saturday afternoon and then Sunday we…
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25th Annual Meeting at Eastern Arizona College, Thatcher – March 29-31, 2012
People and the Upper Gila River Riparian Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future The 25th meeting of the Arizona Riparian Council was held in conjunction with the Gila Watershed Partnership at Eastern Arizona College in Safford, Arizona on March 29-31, 2012.On Thursday, March 29, a workshop was conducted by Allen Haden and Stephanie Yard from Natural…
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2011 – Fall Campout Meeting
The Arizona Riparian Council held a joint meeting with the Flagstaff Chapter of the Arizona Hydrological Society October 22-23, 2011 at The Nature Conservancy’s Shield Ranch near Camp Verde. The Nature Conservancy acquired the 306-acre Shield Ranch in 2010. The property was acquired for its riparian values which include portions of West Clear Creek and…
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24th Annual Meeting, Holiday Inn, Yuma, AZ – March 17-19, 2011
Wetlands on the Edge: Challenges in Wetland and Riparian Restoration, 24th Annual Meeting.