About State Wildlife Action Plans
Arizona's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP),
previously known as the Comprehensive Wildlife
Conservation Strategy (CWCS), was accepted by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National
Acceptance Advisory Team in 2006.
It was the culmination of a 2-year effort
during which the Arizona Game and Fish Department
solicited input from numerous experts, resource
professionals, federal and state agencies,
sportsmen groups, conservation organizations,
Native American tribes, recreational groups,
local governments, and private citizens
and integrated those ideas and concerns
into a single, comprehensive vision for
managing Arizona’s fish, wildlife,
and wildlife habitats over the next ten
years.
For over a decade, a
coalition of more than 3,000 conservation
organizations known as “Teaming With
Wildlife” has labored to keep species
from becoming endangered by increasing state
and federal funding for wildlife conservation. This effort culminated in 2001 when federal
legislation established a new State Wildlife
Grant (SWG) program. SWG funds are
used to support the needs of wildlife, their
habitats, and related recreational and educational
activities. In order to continue receiving
SWG funds, each of the 56 U.S. states and
territories were required by congress
to submit a conservation plan for approval to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guidelines
for developing the state plans and the eight
required elements were established
by state fish and wildlife agencies working
with the International Association of Fish
and Wildlife Agencies and the Teaming With
Wildlife Committee.
Arizona's CWCS is unlike existing recovery
plans and other regulatory documents in
that it builds on and complements existing
plans and wildlife conservation projects
that are already underway. The plan
outlines strategies and conservation actions
aimed at promoting partnerships and coordinating
efforts among all who hold a stake in conserving
Arizona’s wildlife. As such,
the plan addresses the full array of wildlife
and habitats, but focuses on identifying
and managing the “wildlife and biotic
communities of greatest conservation need.
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Arizona's SWAP plan
New! Links to SWAP meeting presentation slides
- SWAP history presentation, [PDF, 775kb]
- Species and Habitat Conservation Guide presentation, [PDF, 3.4mb]
- Species of Greatest Conservation Need presentation, [PDF, 5.8mb]
- Threat models presentation, [PDF, 8.1mb]
Links to
documents related to the SWAP review process
- Draft Species and Habitat Conservation
Guide, [PDF,
57kb]
- Draft threat mapping report, [PDF,
167kb]
- Species vulnerability scoring criteria,
[PDF,
32kb]
- SWAP 2005 species list, [PDF,
44kb]
- SWAP 2010 species list, [PDF,
78kb]
Links to maps (related to the draft
Species and Habitat Conservation Guide)
- Species of economic and recreational
importance, [JPG,
250kb]
- Species of greatest conservation need,
[JPG,
262kb]
- Sportfish, [JPG,
153kb]
- Riparian, [JPG,
181kb]
- Unfragmented, [JPG,
218kb]
- Species and Habitat Conservation Guide,
[JPG,
252kb]
Note: A DVD of
all maps (there are more than 340) is available
upon request by
e-mailing SWAPcomment@azgfd.gov. |
