Reflecting on Environmental Justice in the U.S. and Mexico
February 9, 2023 This is the first in a series of reflections on environmental justice from Mariana Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin, a member of Sky Island Alliance’s board of directors. Based in Tucson,…
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The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Here — So Are All These Other Beauties
February 8, 2023Guest Blog by Randy Serraglio When my partner and I moved into our house about 11 years ago, we saw great potential for creating urban habitat, even though it was…
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The Forever Fund: A New Way to Leave a Sky Island Legacy
February 7, 2023I’m grateful to work for Sky Island Alliance. The work we do and the region we do it in is so special. Six biotic influences meet here, and it’s the…
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New Rule Sends Ripples Through Waters of the U.S.
January 11, 2023Growing up in Tucson with the surrounding Arizona desert, any time I saw water, whether it was in the Rillito at flood stage or Sabino Canyon year-round, I assumed it…
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Sonora Program Continues to Grow With New Role
January 9, 2023Mónica Montaño joined Sky Island Alliance in 2021 as a summer intern and first started working with us on our wildlife-camera projects. In her current role, she is our full-time…
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Reflecting on Our Work at the Border in 2022
December 21, 2022It was quite a year on the border between Sonora and Arizona. From huge summer rains that greened up the area’s grasslands to an illegal shipping-container wall that got pushed…
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SIA, UniSierra Extend Partnership With New Agreement
December 15, 2022We couldn’t be more excited to be entering a new level of collaboration with our friends at the Universidad de la Sierra in Moctezuma, Sonora. This past month we met…
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Sonoran Desert Nutcracker 2022
December 13, 2022Every year our Program Director Emily Burns makes a highlights video of wildlife in her backyard and then sets it to music from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker.” We hope you enjoy this…
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Esqueda Festival Marks Another First in Sonora
December 5, 2022On Nov. 24-25 the town of Esqueda, Sonora, hosted its first conservation festival — a huge success. It was organized by the wildlife club at the University Estatal de Sonora,…
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Farewell to Maggie Trinkle
November 30, 2022This November our longtime employee Maggie Trinkle, who served as our chief operations officer, said goodbye to Sky Island Alliance. I’ve had the wonderful pleasure of working alongside Maggie for…
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