Summit Resources LLC

Working closely with the ownership group, the Arizona Open Land Trust and various departments of the Pima County government over the coarse of 24 months, our outfit played a pivotal roll in the 2009 sale of over 4,100 acres of the centuries-old Sopori Ranch to Pima County. We provided extensive research, document support and Exhibit generation in the areas of Water Rights, Adjudications, Vesting, State Grazing Leases, Forest Grazing Permits and Tenure. We also orchestrated the coordination of all contracted services, such as appraisals, surveys, legal counsel and site clean-ups.

Successful completion of this transaction required us to work closely with several disparate bureaucracies while employing very intricate instruments of partnership, Dual Beneficial Trust Agreements, multi-phased Purchase Agreements, Option Agreements, State Grazing Lease partitionments, Grandfathered Water Rights partitionments, Ranch Management Agreements and Grant of Easements.

In the end, our team’s hard work and diligent coordination efforts resulted in an additional 4,100 acres of biologically important lands being included in Pima County’s land-conservation system.