Assist the preservation and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of Saguaro National Park.

Saguaro National Park is an integral part of a larger network of lands -- both public and private -- which allows for the sustainability of the ecosystems of the Desert Southwest.  National parks and protected public lands preserve many of the nation's areas of greatest biodiversity, and play an important role as natural laboratories -- locations for developing ecological baselines against which data from more disturbed areas can be compared.  Additionally, the region's extraordinarily diverse cultural heritage is reflected in the park's 523 known archeological sites, and the conservation of the park's archeological, historic, and ethnographic resources help preserve the heritage of southern Arizona.