Best FotoFauna Photographs of Winter 2021
March 25, 2021 Join this fun, interactive coffee break to view the season’s best Sky Island FotoFauna photographs, showcased in categories that include Wild for Water, Winter Wonderland, Best Dressed, and more….
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We’re Rooting for Native Flora at Aravaipa Canyon Preserve!
March 22, 2021In early March, a team of six volunteers and three Sky Island Alliance staff braved the chilly spring evenings at Aravaipa Canyon Preserve to do two days of hard, earnest work: pull invasive…
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Actualización del Programa: El Estudio de la Fauna de la Frontera llega a su meta Primero Año
March 18, 2021La semana pasada era monumental para nosotros. Exactamente hace un año, nuestra red de cameras comenzó a documentar la comunidad de fauna silvestre a lo largo de la frontera de…
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A Sampling of Flora in the San Rafael Valley: Shrubs
March 12, 2021In A Sampling of Flora in the San Rafael Valley: Grasses, I mentioned how I’d recently picked up a plant identification book after years of slowly falling in love with the…
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Getting Started with FotoFauna
This webinar aired on March 12, 2021. Watch a newer version of this webinar here. Bring bring your curiosity and get ready to share your love of wildlife species in…
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A Sampling of Flora in the San Rafael Valley: Grasses
February 26, 2021I’ve always loved plants, but it wasn’t until I adopted a vegan diet that I started to see plants as separate from each other instead of one big sea with fifty…
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Painting Sky Island Landscapes with Jorge Obregón
February 25, 2021Tune in for an interview with Mexican artist Jorge Obregón about his landscapes of sky island mountain ranges in central Mexico and other regions of the world! During this discussion,…
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Border Road Construction Tears Through Wash Frequented by Wildlife Species
February 17, 2021While out visiting the westernmost Patagonia Mountain cameras in the Border Wildlife Study, our field team discovered a lot of debris from previous border wall construction in a wash just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. As…
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Exploring High Elevation Springs at Saguaro National Park
February 11, 2021The Rincon Mountains are amazing—so close to Tucson and yet part of a roadless wilderness that still holds many mysteries. Hosted by Don Swann and Dan Beckman from Saguaro National…
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Friday Flora Feature: Deer Grass
One of the first plants we teach our volunteers to look for when out Spring Seeking is deer grass (Muhlenbergia rigens), a type of bunchgrass commonly found near water sources in the Sky Island region. This week, we’re here…
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