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"This project serves as a model approach for the continuation of traditional working ranches as long-term, economically viable enterprises while maintaining unfragmented landscapes and restoring native ecosystems."
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Diablo Canyon RPA Wins Western Planner Award
The 2006 Western Planner Awards were presented August 3rd, 2006 at the annual Western Planner Resources conference in Boise, Idaho.
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| Bill Towler, Community Development Director for Coconino County, Arizona and Member of the Board of the Diablo Trust accepted the award on behalf of everyone who partnered on the project. |
The Diablo Trust, Bar T Bar and Flying M ranches, and Coconino County were awarded the Sheldon D. Gerber Merit Award for Excellence in Environmental Planning, 2006, for Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area: Evolving Traditions in a New Economy, another excellent project resulting from the establishment of a subarea known as the Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area by the Coconino County Board of Supervisors at the request of Bar T Bar and Flying M Ranches, and others. This project serves as a model approach for the continuation of traditional working ranches as long-term, economically viable enterprises while maintaining unfragmented landscapes and restoring native ecosystems.
The Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area project successfully integrates economy, ecology and community by pursuing a range of economic opportunities necessary to support and maintain the viability of ranching while recognizing the fundamental importance of the health of the land and the support of the broader community. The intent of this plan is to meet the goals of maintaining the historic character, healthy ecosystem, and open space values identified as priorities in the Coconino County Comprehensive Plan. This project, too, is recipient to several other prestigious awards. It represents an excellent effort at trying to shape change in the New West.
For more information contact WPR Assistant Editor Debbie Ehlers at 307/266-2524 or debe@wlcwyo.com.
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