A range of discovery
the University of Arizona and the Coronado National Forest Service signed a 60-year lease agreement on the 20-acre headquarters of the 120-year-old Santa Rita Experimental Range!
Handshake between Brett Blum (Southern Arizona Experiment Station Director) and Kerwin Dewberry (Coronado National Forest Service Supervisor) after signing the 60-year lease.
UA News
The story of the Santa Rita Experimental Range is inextricable from that of the Coronado National Forest, as well as the University of Arizona and its land-grant mission: university researchers have studied the ecology and management of semiarid grasslands on the now 53,000-acre site since its creation by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The new lease agreement for the headquarters of the range expands the term to 60 years from the previous term of 20 years.
Learn more about this historic day on these press releases: