Annually several hundred thousand anglers hunters and recreational shooters fish hunt boat and shoot in arizona IT is essential to conserve manage and enhance the quality and availability of sport…

Annually several hundred thousand anglers hunters and recreational shooters fish hunt boat and shoot in arizona IT is essential to conserve manage and enhance the quality and availability of sport fish and wildlife and their habits in order to provide quality sport fishing and hunting opportunities and to disseminate information about arizona sportfish and wildlife resources and recreational opportunities. The arizona comprehensive management system grant activities are conducted statewide and tier to agfd strategic and operational plans and are evaluated annually to ensure the grant is performing as anticipated. The grant funds the operation and maintenance of sport fish hatcheries and the stocking of 380000 pounds of sport fish primarily trout largemouth bass and catfish in more than 100 arizona streams and lakes that are managed to provide diverse warm and cold water fishing opportunities. Sportfish habitat restoration fisheries disease surveillance and water quality monitoring activities support management efforts to provide diverse warm and cold water sportfishing recreation demand estimated at 65 million angler days annually. In addition boater access is evaluated and operations and maintenance conducted to ensure reasonable and quality access is available to boating recreationists.conservation efforts are conducted on wildlife habitat and water to enhance the capacity of habitat to support wildlife and enhance resilience to stressors strategies employed includeextensive wildlife disease surveillance.game and nongame species population enhancements.partnering with private and public landowners to conserve protect and monitor lands.maintaining and enhancing relationships with land managers and conservation partners to improve wildlife habitat at a variety of scales throughout arizona. Subrecipients include turkey federation trout unlimited mule deer foundation and southern wings among others.sustaining wildlife habitats on public and private lands by restoring habitats using various management tools. For example grassland restoration forest thinning orburning fencing riparian restoration water developments and collaborative conservation approaches such as conservation easements habitat acquisition land use agreements water right use to protect habitat for wildlife and wildlife related recreation.collecting managing and providing wildlife information data and science needed to inform and develop the resource management capabilities.conducting wildlife area operations and maintenance and stream and grassland habitat restoration projects and water developments to improve habitat for the benefit of wildlife and sport fish populations.outreach is needed to inform the public about the activities that support and are supported by the wildlife and sport fish restoration program and to educate people about the benefits of grant funded programs in order to build public backing and continued participation. Grant funded outreach and communication efforts include social media strategies as part of agfd conserve and protect campaign. The grant funded shooting sports program maintains develops or supports public shooting ranges within reasonable proximity of urban centers to meet the increasing demand for recreational shooting opportunities. The program provides introductory through advanced shooting opportunities at commissioned owned ranges including the world class BEN avery shooting facility with the intent of increasing the percentage of arizonans participating in recreational shooting. The program also provides technical development and construction assistance to shooting range operators at facilities statewide and also works with partners to provide responsible dispersed recreational shooting on public lands