The Arizona Open Land Trust protects diverse landscapes and wildlife habitat throughout Southern Arizona including desert and riparian areas, grasslands and mountains.  We work with private landowners and communities to protect land with important natural and cultural resources, to expand existing protected areas and keep working agricultural landscapes intact.

With more than 60 percent of threatened and endangered species in the U.S. found on private lands, the interface with willing landowners is even more important.  Private lands are host to important habitat including native grasses, riparian areas and streams, and forests and wooded areas.  And because Arizona’s remaining open landscapes and agricultural lands are facing unprecedented development pressure so too are the critical remaining habitats that co-exist with agricultural operations that often span mountain, grasslands, stream and desert – the land we protect.

	Type	Acres
	Desert Mountain	1,864
	Grassland	11,143
	Riparian	6,178
	Total	19, 185