HEREFORD NRCD BOARD ADVISORS
Jack Ladd, Advisor
Jack has been a Cooperator of the Hereford NRCD for many years. He was appointed to the Board of Supervisors in 1991. Although, as in the case of many ranchers, Jack has had an outside job for most of his ranching career, he has been a full time rancher for the last 20 years. During this time he was briefly President of the Coronado RC&D, was one of the four local individuals selected for the 1999 Tri-County Study of Sustaining and Enhancing Riparian Migratory Bird Habitation on the Upper San Pedro River and for several years was the NRCD representative on the Upper San Pedro Partnership Advisory Committee. Jack is a committed conservationist. He and his family own and operate a ranch along the Mexican border between Naco and the San Pedro River, which was originally homesteaded by his wife's family well over a hundred years ago. He has consistently followed proven conservation practices on the ranch as did his mother-in-law before him and now his son. Over the past 60 years, with the help of the NRCS and its predecessors, the Ladd family have root-plowed or grubbed over 5,000 acres in an effort to enhance the infiltration of storm water runoff and to eliminate mesquite and brush. They have also built hundreds of dikes to slow and spread the runoff. Jack plans to continue this work as long as he is able.
Gail Griffin, AZ Senator - District 14
ARE YOU READY TO FLOCK TOGETHER TO MEET OUR MISSION AND GOALS?
Conservation Districts have statutory responsibility to, "provide for the restoration and conservation of lands and soil resources of the state, the preservation of water rights and the control and prevention of soil erosion, and thereby to conserve natural resources, conserve wildlife, protect the tax base, protect public lands and protect and restore this state's rivers and streams and associated riparian habitats,
including fish and wildlife resources that are dependent on those habitats, and in such manner to protect and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the people."
State Senator Gail Griffin represents Legislative District 14 in the Arizona State Senate. District 14 includes portions of 4 counties; Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Pima. Gail is currently serving as the Majority Whip of the Senate and serves as the Chairman of the Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee, and as a member of the Government Committee, and Rules Committees.
Gail’s activities and memberships include: Arizona Farm Bureau, Arizona Cattle Growers Association, Natural Resource Conservation Districts, Arizona/New Mexico Coalition of Counties, Realtor’s Association (Local, State, and National), Arizona Historical Society, and Sierra Vista Elks Lodge (2065). She has also been volunteering annually for the past 15 years with Girl’s State and she is a Stephens Minister with her local Church.
Gail is an Associate Real Estate Broker (40 years) at Sierra Vista Realty and lives in Cochise County.
