How to check your wildlife camera
February 5, 2020If you haven’t read the previous post about setting up a camera, I highly recommend it, find it here: How SIA Sets Up Our Wildlife Cameras If you have read…
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Sky Island SPOTlight: Davidson Canyon
February 3, 2020Davidson Canyon is a thirty-minute drive from Downtown Tucson, and a little past the town of Vail. This beautiful canyon flows North from the Santa Rita Mountains, crosses I-10, and…
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Friday Creature Feature: Mule deer
February 2, 2020You can find mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) across Western North American. From central Mexico to southern Alaska. They inhabit the deserts, grasslands, chaparral, forests and mountains of the region. In…
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Gaps in Our Wildlife Data
January 29, 2020Over the years Sky Island Alliance has worked across the region, both north and south of the border, in a variety of conservation efforts that include wildlife monitoring. While we…
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Friday Creature Feature: White-throated woodrat
January 24, 20202020 is the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac, and with the Chinese New Year tomorrow, we at Sky Island are celebrating one of the native rat species…
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SIA Wildlife Camera Data Report – Preview
January 22, 2020Currently I am wrapping up an analysis of all the wildlife camera data from our Wildlife Linkages Monitoring Program. The data analyzed here is from a combination of cameras that…
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How we set up our wildlife cameras
January 18, 2020Wildlife cameras are a useful tool to study wildlife in a non-invasive approach and answer many questions about wildlife behavior, occupancy, abundance, and land usage. At Sky Island Alliance, we use wildlife cameras to gather crucial data on wildlife species in…
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Friday Creature Feature: Gray Hawk
January 17, 2020The gray hawk (Buteo plagiatus) is a medium-sized, silvery gray hawk, that has white underparts, a black tail with white banding and yellow legs. The gray hawk ranges from the…
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Staff Highlight: Georgina Waller
January 6, 2020Georgina Waller: Development Assistant Favorite place in Sky Islands? The area of the Sky Islands that I am most familiar with is the Patagonia Mountain range. The reason is the…
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Friday Creature Feature: Desert Cottontail
January 3, 2020Continuing our lagomorph series of creature features, this week we are leaving the hares and go to the other group, the rabbits! Rabbits and Jackrabbits are genetic cousins but are…
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