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Sky Island Alliance is teaming up with the National Park Service to restore a recently-burned hill slope near the main ruin loop at the Monument. Volunteers will be tasked with eradicating non-native plants, installing native plants in their place, and conducting erosion control.

Remove invasive fountain grass in beautiful Bear Canyon to make way for native pollinator plants!

Remove invasive fountain grass in beautiful Bear Canyon to make way for native pollinator plants.

Join us as we put the finishing touches on the new native plant buffer between the Santa Catalina Catholic Church and the new wildlife bridge! We will be installing a few more plants, spreading seeds, and moving rocks around to maximize water harvesting opportunities.

We are bringing back nature! After two bridges were replaced earlier this summer, there were no plants and lots of potential erosion. Help us continue our work to bring back the natives and pollinators at this phenomenal birding spot with Sky Island Alliance just an hour south of Tucson. We start with a bird/nature walk, then do some restoration work.

Why not spend the day after you give thanks, giving back to nature? Come help us remove invasive fountain grass in beautiful Bear Canyon to make way for native pollinator plants!

Help us to put some final touches on our vegetation buffer out at the Oracle Road wildlife crossing, and be a part of this history making project in Southern Arizona.

If you like pollinators, and who doesn't, join us for a morning of seed collection to provided plant materials for new pollinator friendly installations at Saguaro National Park.

Join watershed restoration expert Van Clothier of Stream Dynamics, LLC and SIA for a weekend of camping and watershed repair on the Malpai Ranch! We will be reinforcing newly repaired rock structures at Silver Creek with native plants and handwork.

We're back in Madera Canyon - taking care of our native plants, rockwork, and removing invasive vinca to make way for more native pollinator plants. We always take plenty of time to enjoy the birds while in Madera Canyon - bring your binoculars!

Join us for a weekend in the beautiful Chiricahuas as we continue our work to control erosion and increase water infiltration in a watershed that was burned during the Horseshoe 2 fire! We will be making additions, tweaks, and repairs to our work of the past summer when hundreds of rock erosion control structures were built.

We continue our work to improve habitat in Bear Canyon by removing invasive species and installing native plants that are beneficial to the local community of flora and fauna.

Our work in Madera Canyon continues as we create space for native species by removing invasive vinca. Join us in this world renowned birding hotspot, and remember to bring your binoculars!

Our work in Amado continues as we re-create a water source and build new habitat for native species!

Join us for a day or few as we work to build habitat for the Federally listed Gila topminnow as well as many other native plants and animals!

Come help us beat back an invasion of Sahara mustard and other invasive plants out at the Oracle Road wildlife crossing, before they have a chance to set seed!

Celebrate 100 years of the National Park Service and help with the Centennial Saguaro Survey in the Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Park. We will be adding to the park's data about the effects of climate change and invasive species encroachment on our local ecosystems.

Join SIA staff in Madera Canyon for a day of habitat restoration and creation! Our work will support newly installed plants, and rockwork, and will include the removal of invasive vinca from the area.

Spend a day or two (or a week!) with us in beautiful Bear Canyon. We are working to create a healthier habitat for native species by removing invasive plants and planting species that are beneficial to the other native plants and animals in this riparian community.

Spend a day or two (or a week!) with us in beautiful Bear Canyon. We are working to create a healthier habitat for native species by removing invasive plants and planting species that are beneficial to the other native plants and animals in this riparian community.

Spend a day or two (or a week!) with us in beautiful Bear Canyon. We are working to create a healthier habitat for native species by removing invasive plants and planting species that are beneficial to the other native plants and animals in this riparian community.

Join us in the amazing Chiricahua Mountains as we work to repair a watershed that was damaged by the Horseshoe 2 fire. We will be checking up on rock structures that were originally put in place last year, as well as down loading data from associated monitoring stations.

Help us continue our work to remove invasive plants from this amazingly diverse canyon. We will be taking out vinca and installing native plants that provide important resources for wildlife.

Join Sky Island Alliance as we help the park with their cottonwood and willow planting efforts. We will be watering new plants, assessing the condition of the plants, weeding around the new trees, and building/maintaining basins at the base of the trees to hold water.

Join us in Bear Canyon for another lovely day of planting natives for pollinators! Our work to replace invasive species with beneficial native species along the creek continues!

This weekend, we will be hoping to finish up our assessments of springs in preparation for controlled burns that will be conducted in the area in May and June. It is unknown how fire affects spring ecosystems, so this trip will be focused on collecting baseline information on springs before fire.

Our work at Tumacacori National Historical Park continues. We will be watering and assessing the condition of the plants, weeding around the new trees, and building/maintaining basins at the base of the trees to hold water.

SIA is going to New Mexico! Join us as we re-create habitat for pollinators and other species at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. We will be building upon work we did last year to plant and stabilize a slope that was intensively burned a couple years ago.

Join SIA staff in Madera Canyon for a day of habitat restoration and creation! Our work will support newly installed plants, and rockwork, and will include the removal of invasive vinca from the area.

Join SIA staff in Madera Canyon for a day of habitat restoration! Our work will focus on watering native plants that we've installed over the past year - helping them to get established until the relief of the monsoon rains come!

Help us as we continue our work to support newly planted cottonwood and willow trees out at this beautiful Historical Park.

Sky Island Alliance has been helping TNC and the BLM in Aravaipa Canyon for several years on a variety of projects to increase watershed health along this perennial riparian area. During this trip we will be removing vinca from the understory of the creek banks. PLEASE NOTE: SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THIS TRIP! Registration for this trip will close at 11 PM on Monday May 23rd!

Join us for another morning of work in beautiful Madera Canyon as we continue to remove invasive vinca and water our pollinator friendly plantings.

Join us along the Santa Cruz River as we assist Tumacacori National Historical Park with maintaining newly planted cottonwood and willow trees.

Come out and help kick start a very interesting project helping to restore a wildlife corridor between the Patagonia and Santa Rita Mountains. The area we will be working in was the site of a planned development, but it had also been identified as one of the most important corridors for jaguar movement between Mexican and U.S. Sky Islands...

Join Sky Island Alliance as we install new native pollinator plants at Tumacacori National Historical Park!

Head down South to help SIA and Tumacacori National Historical Park as we water, weed, and maintain newly planted cottonwood and willow trees near the Santa Cruz River. Your bound to see some interesting bird and butterfly life as well!

Celebrate Independence Day out in the Sky Islands! We will be working at "Camp Rucker" in Rucker Canyon, on the west side of the Chiricahua Mountains, at just under 6,000 feet in elevation. Join us as we put the finishing touches on our work at this historic cavalry camp to create ponds that support Chiricahua leopard frogs, bats, and native pollinator species.

Join SIA staff in Madera Canyon for a day of habitat restoration! Our work will focus on removal of invasive vinca from the areas surrounding our recent rehabilitation of the bridge construction site.

Join us near Patagonia where we have been working to restore an important wildlife corridor. We will be installing native plants grown by Borderland Restoration to enhance habitat and strengthen the rock work completed in June.

Help Sky Island Alliance as we continue our work to install new native pollinator plants at Tumacacori National Historical Park!

Sky Island Alliance is teaming up with the National Park Service and Borderlands Restoration to restore a recently-burned slope near the main ruin loop at the Monument. Join us for a weekend of camping and installing native pollinator plants like milkweeds, in this beautiful Monument!

Help us to create a bountiful habitat for birds, bees, bats and more at the site of our recent pond restoration project in Amado. The water and topminnows are back, and monsoons are the perfect time to add more native plants!

Join us for a day of documenting the amazing variety of butterflies and other pollinators at Tumacacori National Historical Park!

Come get wet and dirty with SIA in Aravaipa Canyon! Join us as we plant native grasses and remove an invasive plant called vinca (or periwinkle) from the understory of the creek banks.

We will be installing more native plants as we continue our work at the historic cavalry camp where we have created three ponds that will one day support Chiricahua leopard frogs, as well as the bats, toads, dragonflies, and various native pollinator species that are already calling these ponds home. This is a CAMPING TRIP, we will not be staying at the nearby station.

Come plant milkweeds with us as we visit the house pond at Brown Canyon Ranch near Sierra Vista. Our work will help create bountiful resources for pollinators and other native species at this future home of Chiricahua leopard frogs.

As part of National Public Lands Day we will be continuing to enhance natural conditions near the two new bridges in Madera Canyon and at a new interpretive area. Come out and help stabilize this beautiful canyon (and birding hotspot) just an hour south of Tucson.

Join SIA staff in Madera Canyon for a day of habitat restoration! We will be focused on planting milkweeds and young oak trees at the site of the new bridges in the upper canyon. This site has come a long way since the construction, and is looking great! Help us as we install even more plant resources for pollinators and other wildlife.

Join us this weekend in the spectacular southern end of the Galiuro Mountains as we conduct spring assessments ahead of a controlled burn. While no special skills are necessary, if you have tracking, plant identification, and/or invertebrate identification skills, and are a strong hiker, that is especially helpful. Having a 4WD vehicle is a plus, too!