Meet an SIA Staff Member: Mónica Montaño
June 3, 2022Mónica Montaño started with Sky Island Alliance as a summer intern in 2021 and is now a Sky Island fellow working to advance our conservation projects in Sonora. Read this…
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Wildlife Tracking in the Borderlands
June 1, 2022Two weeks ago, five SIA trackers went down to the border along the western foothills of Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains to document wildlife use of the borderlands. We tracked along the…
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Environmental Groups Look Forward at Gathering in Sonora
May 31, 2022In May 2022, Sky Island Alliance staff joined five other environmental organizations in Sonora, Mexico, for a weekend at the stunningly beautiful Aribabi Conservation Ranch, nestled among cottonwood trees near…
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Santa Cruz Watershed Gets New Restoration Plan
May 24, 2022In March 2022 the Santa Cruz Watershed Collaborative voted to adopt a new restoration plan. This is an exciting step forward in restoring formerly perennial rivers throughout Tucson and the…
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Friday Fauna Feature: Hog-nosed Skunk
Written by Aleidys López Romero No, they don’t ‘oink, oink.’ But yes! they do have special powers and many endearing qualities. It’s the long, bare nose of American hog-nosed skunks…
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It’s World Bee Day. Time for Bee Bingo!
May 20, 2022May 20 is World Bee Day, and that’s something that we here in the Sonoran Desert have more reasons to celebrate than most. We live in a global hotspot of…
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Friday Flora Feature: Arizona Sycamore
May 16, 2022Written by Aleidys Lopez Romero This week our flora feature is the Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii). While this species was named after American botanist Charles Wright (1811-1885), this tree’s family…
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Friday Flora Feature: Fremont Cottonwood
Written by Aleidys Lopez Romero This week we turn our attention to an important indicator of water and a sight for sore eyes on long Spring Seeker trips: the Fremont…
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Unisierra Taller: “Monitoreo de Fauna con Cámaras Trampa”
El 28 de marzo del 2022, nuestro especialista en vida silvestre en Sonora, Miguel Enriquez con apoyo de nuestro gerente de proyectos de vida silvestre, Eamon Harrity, impartieron un taller…
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Taller de Manantiales en Unisierra para Estudiantes de Biología
April 29, 2022Nuestro especialista en manantiales de Sonora, Angel García, presentó un taller el día 28 de marzo de 2022 a estudiantes de la carrera Lic. en Biología en la Universidad de…
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