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Championing Education, Conservation, and Outdoor Access in Arizona

Championing Education, Conservation, and Outdoor Access in Arizona

HCLC, Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaMarch 3, 2025Arizona, Hispanic Conservation Leadership Council (HCLC), hclc, conservation, latino outdoors, #Latinos4Conservation, Women History Month, Latinas in ConservationComment

Championing Conservation: Representative Mariana Sandoval's Call to Action for Latinos

Championing Conservation: Representative Mariana Sandoval's Call to Action for Latinos

HCLC, Video, WaterDaniela ZavalaMarch 3, 2025AZ Rep Mariana Sandoval, Arizona, conservation, Latinos in Conservation, #Latinos4Conservation, Hispanic Conservation Leadership Council (HCLC), hclcComment

What Public Lands Mean to Me, and Why I Deeply Care About Protecting Desert National Wildlife Refuge for Generations To Come

What Public Lands Mean to Me, and Why I Deeply Care About Protecting Desert National Wildlife Refuge for Generations To Come

Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaMarch 3, 2025Nevada, National Refuges, Deser National Wildlife RefugeComment

The Importance of Healthy Forests and Forest Management

The Importance of Healthy Forests and Forest Management

Video, HCLCDaniela ZavalaFebruary 24, 2025Forest Restoration, forest management, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Fix Our Forests ActComment

It’s Time for Our Community, Especially the Youth, To Reconnect to the Outdoors.

It’s Time for Our Community, Especially the Youth, To Reconnect to the Outdoors.

Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaFebruary 24, 2025guest blog, outdoors equity, outdoorsComment

Empowering Latinos: Embrace Nature and Explore Careers in Conservation

Empowering Latinos: Embrace Nature and Explore Careers in Conservation

Guest Blog, VideoDaniela ZavalaFebruary 24, 2025conservation, Latinos in Conservation, #Latinos4Conservation, AZ Game and Fish, arizonaComment

2025 Conservation in the West Poll Shows Strong Support for Protecting Public Lands, Waters, and Natural Resources

2025 Conservation in the West Poll Shows Strong Support for Protecting Public Lands, Waters, and Natural Resources

Press Releases/StatementsDaniela ZavalaFebruary 19, 2025statement, Conservation in the West Poll 2025, conservation, public landsComment

Protecting Our Public Lands, Resources, and American Interests From Foreign Mining Companies

Protecting Our Public Lands, Resources, and American Interests From Foreign Mining Companies

Oak Flat, Water, VideoDaniela ZavalaFebruary 12, 2025Save oak flat Act, oak flat, arizona, water, indigenous peoples, San Carlos Apache, mining, Copper mining, Resolution CopperComment

The Forest Can Thrive and Protect Our Communities if We Care for It and Allow It To

The Forest Can Thrive and Protect Our Communities if We Care for It and Allow It To

HCLC, Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaFebruary 7, 2025forestry, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), forest management, Forest Restoration, Wildfire, wildfire, fires, arizonaComment

Understanding Acequias: Cultural Significance to Hispanos in the American Southwest

Understanding Acequias: Cultural Significance to Hispanos in the American Southwest

Video, Water, HCLCDaniela ZavalaFebruary 7, 2025New Mexico, Acequias, Querencia y Herencia, Water, watershedComment

Debunking Myths About Hunting

Debunking Myths About Hunting

VideoDaniela ZavalaFebruary 3, 2025hunting, hunter, hunters, Outdoor RecreationComment

How American Copper Could Be Shipped to China if Resolution Copper Took Control of Lands in Arizona

How American Copper Could Be Shipped to China if Resolution Copper Took Control of Lands in Arizona

Photo from NWF by Thomas Amaya

Video, Water, Oak FlatDaniela ZavalaFebruary 3, 2025oak flat, Save oak flat Act, Water, water pollution, water conservation, Copper mining, Resolution CopperComment

Declaración de HECHO sobre la confirmación de Doug Burgum como Secretario del Interior

Declaración de HECHO sobre la confirmación de Doug Burgum como Secretario del Interior

Press Releases/StatementsDaniela ZavalaJanuary 30, 2025comunicado, Statement, Public Lands, DOIComment

HECHO’s Statement on the Confirmation of Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior

HECHO’s Statement on the Confirmation of Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior  

Press Releases/StatementsDaniela ZavalaJanuary 30, 2025statement, Department of Interior (DOI), Public Lands, conservaComment

The Passage of the Bipartisan “Fix Our Forests Act” in the House Represents Progress in Addressing Wildfire Risks, and HECHO Urges the Senate to Vote in Favor.

The Passage of the Bipartisan “Fix Our Forests Act” in the House Represents Progress in Addressing Wildfire Risks, and HECHO Urges the Senate to Vote in Favor.

Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaJanuary 24, 2025blog, Forest Restoration, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), forestryComment

HECHO Statement on Congress’s Attempt To Revoke the Antiquities Act

HECHO Statement on Congress’s Attempt To Revoke the Antiquities Act

Monuments, Press Releases/StatementsDaniela ZavalaJanuary 17, 2025statement, Antiquities Act, permanent protectionsComment

Explore Our National Parks on Entrance-Free Days in 2025

Explore Our National Parks on Entrance-Free Days in 2025

Photo of Yosemite National Park in feature images by Daniela Zavala.

Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaJanuary 13, 2025National Park Service (NPS), National Parks, National Public Lands Day, Public Lands, Outdoors, Outdoor RecreationComment

Southwestern Arizona Has a Landscape That Needs Permanent Protection: The Great Bend of the Gila

Southwestern Arizona Has a Landscape That Needs Permanent Protection: The Great Bend of the Gila

Great Bend of the Gila, HCLC, VideoDaniela ZavalaJanuary 13, 2025Great bend of the gila, Arizona, Wildlife, permanent protections, Hispanic Leaders, hispanic leadership, Hispanic Conservation Leadership Council (HCLC), HCLCComment

Closing Out 2024 With Successful Conservation Efforts and Kicking off 2025 With Expanded Opportunities for Outdoor Recreation for All

Closing Out 2024 With Successful Conservation Efforts and Kicking off 2025 With Expanded Opportunities for Outdoor Recreation for All

Photo: Daniela Zavala (White Pocket, AZ)

URG, Water, Guest BlogDaniela ZavalaJanuary 13, 2025Pecos River, Upper Rio Grande, conservation, water, Bipartisan EXPLORE Act, outdoors, Outdoor Recreation Comment

Jerry Cordova: “The One Water Concept Affects Everything”

Jerry Cordova: “The One Water Concept Affects Everything”

HCLC, Video, WaterDaniela ZavalaJanuary 2, 2025Hispanic Conservation Leadership Council (HCLC), HCLC, Water, water conservation, water crisis, water pollutionComment