2005
In 2005 the Sonoran Institute awarded Arizona Land and Water Trust (formerly Arizona Open Land Trust) the Conservation Collaboration Award for finding collaborative solutions to community issues, specifically for helping pass significant bond funds for conservation, prioritizing land preservation targets, and partnering with Pima County to secure thousands of acres of top priority conservation lands.
2005
The Pima County Board of Supervisors awarded Arizona Land and Water Trust (ALWT) with its “Partners in Conservation” award for its ongoing work with the County in open space acquisitions and working ranchland protection.
2007
Sunset magazine has awarded Arizona Land and Water Trust (formerly Arizona Open Land Trust) and Pima County one of its 2007 Environmental Awards for their work in preserving the Santa Lucia Ranch, a 10,000-acre working ranch in the Altar Valley. Sunset magazine gives this prestigious award annually to ten “Champions of the West” whose extraordinary conservation work, “won by complex public-private partnerships,” has led to the preservation of “paradises.”
2009
The Nature Conservancy of Arizona awarded Diana Freshwater, then Executive Director of Arizona Land and Water Trust, their Joseph Wood Krutch Award for the organization’s leadership role in a multi-year project to prioritize the Conservation Land System in Pima County in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.
2016
Arizona Land & Water Trust (ALWT) received the 2016 National Land Trust Excellence Award from the national Land Trust Alliance, which represents more than 1,100 land trusts nationwide. ALWT is the only trust in the lower Western states to receive this award in the award’s 10-year history.