The need for consistent and accurate monitoring is a statewide need. Providing yearly, reportable information about range health is the only way to create management plans with sustainability in mind. Efforts in Northern and Southern Arizona are underway. Within the Chino Winds NRCD (Prescott National Forest) and the Willcox-San Simon NRCD. As of August 2023, 168 transects have been completed.

Post-fire rangeland restoration efforts include new fence installation. Replacing fencing destroyed by fires restores grazing management practices that can help maintain and/or improve rangeland vegetation productivity and diversity to the benefit of wildlife and livestock, protect soil from erosion, improve capture of rainfall, and reduce excessive runoff and flooding. As of August 2023, 87 miles of new fenceline has been completed.

A cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Land Management and Arizona’s Conservation Districts (as a part of the RRMP) will see potentially thousands of acres monitored and assessed through BLM’s AIM Strategy, providing useful rangeland data to support conservation planning. AIM’s goal is to “provide a standardized monitoring strategy for assessing natural resource condition and trend on BLM public lands” (https://www.blm.gov/aim).