The Arizona Wildlife Linkages Workgroup The Arizona Wildlife
Linkages Workgroup is a collaborative effort between nine public
agencies and nonprofit organizations: • Arizona Department of
Transportation • Arizona Game and Fish Department • Bureau of
Land Management • Federal Highway Administration • Northern
Arizona University • Sky Island Alliance • USDA Forest Service •
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • Wildlands Project ||The
partners began collaborating on this project beginning with the
"Missing Linkages" workshop in April 2004. Biologists,
engineers, planners and land managers have worked together since
then to identify large blocks of protected habitat, the
potential wildlife movement corridors through and between them,
the factors that could possibly disrupt these linkage zones, and
opportunities for conservation. ||Recognizing that habitat
connectivity is a landscape issue involving multiple land
jurisdictions, this workgroup has engaged in unprecedented
cooperation and facilitated discussions and par