Big Energy is currently trying to take advantage of poor & unprotected Arizona counties. Join our community in the battle to save our water, wilderness, & homes.
Every action below goes directly into the formal public record. Here's exactly where to start.
Case No. L-21365A-25-0198 is open. Credentialed professionals needed now — fire operations, fiscal analysis, environmental science, land use law. One expert submission outweighs a thousand signatures.
Two minutes. One comment. Pre-drafted templates with docket numbers and deadlines are ready on sawm.org. Every submission is permanently in the formal record — and it counts.
A legal-quality document — not a form email. Your signature enters the record as formal opposition under HB 2267's 4-mile nuisance standard. Goal: 1,000 verified signatures in 90 days.
Apache County is rewriting wind and solar setback standards right now. Our land use attorney has drafted specific proposed language. County-level standards survive any state veto.
Developers are approaching ranching families in the corridor right now. A refused lease is worth ten op-eds. Our Kitchen Table guide helps neighbors have the right conversation first — with fiscal data and aquifer risk in hand.
Ten speakers at every hearing. All testimony submitted in writing the same day — verbal testimony alone is not in the formal record. Pre-hearing briefings at Round Valley and St. Johns Libraries.
Save Arizona White Mountains is the only organization in Apache County combining credentialed local professionals, active fire district relationships, and a ranching community network to produce the safety and fiscal evidence that proves industrial wind development here is the wrong size, in the wrong place.
Learn MoreSAWM wins not by being louder than Repsol and Triple Oak Power — but by being more credible, more organized, and more formally present in the record than they expect any community organization to be.
We file credentialed expert testimony where developers file consultants' reports. We put an independent fiscal depreciation analysis in front of every supervisor before the vote. We reach every ranching family before the lease offer arrives.
The formal record is how a CUP denial holds up in court. We're building it.
See the Public Record →Before any CUP is approved, these standards must be formally in the public record.
Permitting decisions happen at multiple levels. Here's who the key players are, where they stand, and what SAWM is doing to reach each one.
Fifth-generation ranching family. Republican. Primary Plan A Board target. The most natural alignment with SAWM's safety and fiscal arguments.
Plan A PrimaryFormer two-term Navajo Nation President. Sixth Board term. Pro-renewable. Reachable on process integrity and fiscal transparency grounds.
Plan B ApproachFormer Navajo Nation Council, Board Chairman. Engaged on community sovereignty and fiduciary duty to all Apache County residents.
Plan B ApproachHearing dates, docket confirmations, expert testimony filings — every formal action communicated within 48 hours. You'll always know what happened and what it means for the record.