Westwide Reports

Aguas! 2026 Strategic Plan
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The Sonoran Institute’s 2026 Strategic Plan for flowing rivers, healthy landscapes, and thriving communities.

Informe Anual 2020. Un miembro del equipo Sonoran Institute usando un pequeño tronco como puente para cruzar el agua en nuestro sitio de restauración, Laguna Grande, en la Delta del Río Colorado.
Informe anual 2020 (Español)
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El informe anual de 2020, Conectar. Enriquecer. Sostener., muestra el impacto realizado en el año de nuestro 30 aniversario. Es el apoyo de nuestros donantes y socios que nos han ayudado a trabajar… MORE ›

Annual Report 2020 (English)
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The 2020 annual report, Connect. Nourish. Sustain., showcases the impact made in our 30th anniversary year. It is the support of our donors and partners who have helped us work across borders and boundary… MORE ›

Growing Water Smart Metrics Report
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The Metrics Report assists communities in measuring progress towards integrating water and land use planning. Data-informed decisions lead to intentional adaptations. This guidebook recommends common metrics, and how to collect this data at… MORE ›

Growing Water Smart: The Water-Land Use Nexus
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The Sonoran Institute and Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy’s Growing Water Smart program introduces communities to the full range of communications, public engagement, planning, and policy implementation tools to realize their watershed health and community resiliency goals. Through Growing Water Smart, Colorado communities can learn how they can integrate land use and water planning.

Resilient Communities Starter Kit
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The Resilient Communities Starter Kit is a road map for making communities more resilient to shifting climates and changing environments.

ReStore – 06.2014
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Workshop participants identified several alternative approaches for further study. For example, alternative compensation schemes including annual payments or royalty payments merited much discussion. There was also interest in new approaches to landowner negotiations,… MORE ›

Getting Right-of-Way Right
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In January 2013, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Sonoran Institute, Headwaters Economics and the Western Governors’ Association convened a workshop focusing on landowner compensation for electric power transmission (transmission) rights-of-way. In particular,… MORE ›