What We Do: Initiatives

Master List of Initiatives

Camp Naco Arizona by Henry Wallace.

Camp Naco

Preserving an early twentieth-century military facility and later CCC camp in the Arizona borderlands

Casa Grande

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Expansion

Advocating for boundary expansion of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Coolidge, Arizona

Great Bend of the Gila River

Joining the Sonoran Desert Heritage Campaign to preserve portions of this unique cultural crossroads in western Maricopa County, Arizona

Honey Bee Village Community Outreach

Working with the community to develop a multicultural interpretive plan for the Honey Bee Village archaeological preserve in Oro Valley, Arizona

Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area

Proposing a National Heritage Area in this northeastern Arizona valley, where some of the deepest traditions of the ancient and historic American West still exist

Preservation and Collections Management at Salmon Pueblo

Curating an enormous artifact, sample, and archival-photographic collection from 1970s excavations at Salmon Pueblo, New Mexico

Preservation Archaeology on the Little Colorado River

Ongoing preservation and education efforts at sites in the Little Colorado River valley of northeastern Arizona

Preservation Archaeology on the San Pedro River

Ongoing protection and outreach programs in communities along the San Pedro River of southeastern Arizona

Saguaros

Santa Cruz River Valley National Heritage Area

Proposing this southern Arizona Heritage Area and establishing the Heritage Alliance that currently manages this initiative

Snaketown Artistic Heritage Project

Documenting the Snaketown Collection, a large collection of Hohokam artifacts formerly curated at the Arizona State Museum

The Virtual Vault

Producing cutting-edge 3-D digital models of heritage objects