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Invest in Arizona’s Lands and WatersTake ActionThe Yellow-breasted Chat relies on healthy riverside habitat. 

Dear RJ,

The Arizona Legislature is crafting the state budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2026. Take action and tell them to invest in Arizona’s natural resources today.

Each year, Audubon Southwest outlines its priorities for Arizona’s state budget. Along with you, our powerful grassroots network, we advocate for investments to maintain and protect our lands and waters.

Now is the time to contact your lawmakers in the Arizona Legislature and encourage them to include funding to steward Arizona’s natural resources in the state budget.

Audubon Southwest supports the following state funding investments to protect Arizona’s lands and waters for the next fiscal year:  

• $30 million for the Colorado River Protection Fund
• Maintain current funding levels for the Arizona Department of Water Resources
• Preserve existing monies in the Water Supply Development Revolving Fund
• $9.5 million for the Water Quality Fee Fund  
• $3 million for salt cedar removal and reestablishing native plants
• $1 million for the Arizona State Parks Heritage Fund
• $100,000 for the Arizona Trail
• Funding for existing state programs that could make an immediate impact through water conservation, efficiency, reuse, groundwater recharge, and forest and watershed health

Protecting Arizona’s lands and waters for generations to come requires continued investment from the state. Urge your legislators to craft a state budget that incorporates the funding necessary to safeguard Arizona’s natural resources that communities, businesses, farms, and birds—like Yellow-breasted Chat—depend on.

Thank you for taking action,

Haley Paul, Senior Policy Director

Audubon Southwest

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Yellow-breasted Chat. Photo: Mick Thompson/Audubon Photography Awards

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