Taylor Lo: Stories From Camp Week
July 10, 2022 Last week I went on a great adventure: the highly anticipated camp week for the Path of the Jaguar internship. As a so-called East Coast “city slicker” with hardly…
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Nadira Mitchell: Stories From Camp Week
July 8, 2022 As someone who was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, I’ve always been aware of our proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border. I grew up in a city and went…
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Searching for Springsnails in Arizona
July 5, 2022“I found one! Wait, no, that’s a pebble.” That was my refrain recently when I went out in the field to search for springsnails with Jeff Sorensen, a.k.a. “the snail…
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Our Favorite Ways to Track the Monsoon
June 29, 2022The monsoon is imminent here in Tucson, Arizona, and it’s already started further south in Sonora! I grew up in Tucson, and it was an early interest in how the…
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Sky Island Hikes: Sierra Huérfana
June 27, 2022The following is part of a series of recommended hikes in the Sky Islands — be safe, have fun, and leave no trace. According to popular wisdom, the Sierra Huérfana…
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Summer Intern Stories: Spring Restoration
June 24, 2022SIA Stewardship Specialist Bryon Lichtenhan and I recently headed out to the field, delighted to be accompanied by our three Doris Duke conservation scholars — Taylor Lo, Samai Bhojwani, and…
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Summer Intern Stories: Setting Up a Wildlife Camera
June 23, 2022Alejandra Tanori García — above left, on an earlier trip planting native grasses — is one of our Path of the Jaguar interns this year. A few days ago she…
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New Cohort Arrives for Path of the Jaguar Internship
June 16, 2022We’re excited to begin another great summer of conservation work and fun with a new batch of Path of the Jaguar interns from Mexico and the United States. Our paid internship…
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In Search of a Threatened Sonoran Minnow
June 15, 2022In May 2022 three Sky Island Alliance staff members from Sonora — Angel García, Miguel Enríquez, and Mónica Montaño — joined a group of native fish researchers and conservationists in…
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The Benefits of Moving Quietly Through Nature
June 7, 2022Whenever I go check remote cameras near Agua Prieta, Sonora, I get excited about what I might see during the trip. Normally, to get to the places where the cameras…
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