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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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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