Resources

Aguas! 2026 Strategic Plan

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

Advocating for Inclusion: Partnership with Water & Tribes Initiative

Sonoran Institute’s partnership with the Water & Tribes Initiative is dedicated to enhancing the capacity of tribes and advancing sustainable water management through collaborative problem-solving in the Colorado River Basin. We do this… MORE ›

Informe anual 2020 (Español)

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)

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

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 ›

Enriquecer y sostener – Visión 2020-2025 (Español)

Planes audaces para comunidades y ecosistemas prósperos Desde 1990, el Sonoran Institute ha reunido con éxito a partes interesadas diversas a fin de forjar soluciones de conservación eficaces y duraderas. A través del… MORE ›

Nourish and Sustain – Vision 2020-2025 (English)

Bold plans for thriving communities and ecosystems In March 2020, the Sonoran Institute adopted a new strategic framework that sharpens our focus in tackling the challenges facing the West over the next five… MORE ›

Growing Water Smart: The Water-Land Use Nexus

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

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

ReStore – 06.2014

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

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 ›

RESET – Assessing Future Housing Markets in the Rocky Mountain West 03.13.2013

Leasing Renewable Energy on State Trust Lands in the Intermountain West 01.01.2013

This report discusses the status and trends of renewable energy on state trust lands, and makes recommendations for ways to better incorporate renewable energy into state trust land portfolios.

WestWord – Summer 2008

WestWord – Summer 2011

Sustaining Large Landscape Conservation Partnerships – Strategies for Success 06.01.2012

An Analysis of Contributory Value on Trust Lands in the West 12.01.2011

This working paper seeks to explain the obstacles and outline recommendations to create an environment that supports the use of contributory value and nonmonetary consideration allowing state trust lands to be used for… MORE ›

Landscapes Of The American Spirit – A Celebration Of The National Landscape Conservation System And Its Community Partnerships – 10.15.2010

National Historic Trails Interpretive Center – 10.01.2010

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument – NLCS Profile – 10.01.2010