Whitlow Ranch Dam is an ungated flood risk management structure located on Queen Creek in Pinal County, Ariz., about 50 miles southeast of Phoenix and about seven miles northeast of Florence Junction.
Protected by the Arizona Native Plant Law. Critical habitat has been designated on approximately 7,501 hectares (18,535 acres) in Maricopa, western Pima, and Pinal counties.
This Level II field guide describes a national protocol to supply data used in project identification and planning. Data collected through this field guide serve as the basis for the assessment of project and activity effects on, and the identification of project-level design and mitigation measures for, a specific set of groundwater-dependent ecosystem (GDE) types.
In October 2017, the Arizona Game and Fish Department conducted fish and aquatic herpetological surveys along Queen Creek on Tonto National Forest and Boyce Thompson State Park lands downstream of the Superior Waste Water Treatment Plant and documented >240 juvenile and adult lowland leopard frogs (Rana yavapaiensis), as well as multiple age classes of green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
The purpose of this memo is to present the current and future status of climbing area access and identify planned mitigation options for climbing resources that may be impacted as a result of the Resolution Copper project.
This document provides a summary of the proposed Arizona hedgehog cactus conservation measure, its rationale, and a description of associated activities and reporting.
