Ecological Threats
The Lower Colorado River Valley subregion of the Sonoran Desert bioregion has multiple threats. Some major threats include urbanization, clearing of land for agriculture, human occupancy – especially as a result of imported external resources, and camping and camptrailers on BLM land. Other threats include harvesting for fuelwood, campfires, etc. of desert ironwood, Olneya tesota, destruction of land by offroad vehicles, especially in sand dunes, and harvesting and manipulation of groundwater.
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