natural resources found at the Florence Military Reservation, and provides goals and
objectives to enhance the natural environment while maintaining training capabilities.
The know impacts that operations have on natural resources includes soil contamination
from small arms training; disturbance of desert scrub vegetation due to artillery and
vehicle maneuver areas; as well as disturbance of special status species and their habit
due to the same activities. The INRMP also identifies future potential impacts on natural
resources from military training, which includes soil erosion from vegetation loss and
water contamination from pest control.
Chapter 7 of the INRMP establishes the guidelines for protecting and managing natural
resources, which includes training personnel and requirements, data storage and
analysis, ecosystem management, water resource protection, wetlands management,
soils maintenance, forest management, fire management, pest management, and
management / mitigation enforcement.
Integrated Pest Management Plan
The Integrated Pest Management Plan (IPMP) was completed in 2013 for the Arizona
Army National Guard. This plan identifies the individuals and/or parties responsible for
implementing the IPMP and outlines the four basic measures of removing and preventing
pests on AZARNG military reservations. These four measures are:
Mechanical and physical control, includes altering the environment in which pests
move and live, as well as physically removing unwanted pests;
Cultural control, includes strategies that reduce or eliminate attractors of pests;
Biological control, includes utilizing predators and / or other biological organisms
that attack, eliminate, and/or deter pests to control pest populations; and
Chemical control, includes pesticides and other chemicals that kill living
organisms. It should be noted that chemical control is only used when nontoxic
measures are not sufficient to reduce exposure to toxins from personnel.
The protocol for each pest species found at AZARNG military facilities is listed in
Appendix A of the IPMP.
Background Report
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