This strategic plan identifies the management direction that the Arizona Game and Fish Commission has provided to the Department for the next six years. The plan discusses the most important issues facing the Department, including the recruitment and retention of hunters, anglers and shooting sports participants, and explains how the Department plans to respond to those issues.

Prior strategic plans focused on just one of the programmatic areas for which the Department is responsible; for example, Wildlife 2006 was solely a wildlife strategic plan. In contrast, Wildlife 2012 provides strategic guidance for all programs within the Arizona Game and Fish Department. It emphasizes wildlife management, which is the Department’s primary focus. However, Wildlife 2012 also addresses off-highway vehicle and watercraft recreation beyond their impacts to wildlife resources, as well as the administration of the Department.

Outlines a comprehensive and systematic process for setting priorities for construction of planned, future trail segments of the Flagstaff Urban Trails System. Fifty miles of urban trails exist in the system as of November 2010, but 80 additional miles are needed to complete it. Limitations on funding for new trail construction require that priorities be established.

A report by a committee, members of which were appointed by the Flagstaff City Council to study and make recommendations on establishing an urban trails system for Flagstaff. Issues addressed include which properties (public or private) should be included in the system, funding sources, maintenance and promotion of the system, refinement of existing urban trails plans, and coordination with other trail systems in the area.