A Fond Farewell From SIA Intern Rosy Jackson
August 23, 2023It’s hard to decide where to begin with how much I’ve learned through my internship with Sky Island Alliance. But now that I’m moving on to other adventures and more…
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A Sonoran Field Trip During the Rainy Season
August 10, 2023In the middle of this past July, I had the great pleasure of going on an outing to check remote wildlife cameras at Rancho Nuevo near Moctezuma, Sonora. Joining me…
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Mujeres Fronterizas #3: Irasema Coronado
August 3, 2023Subscribe: Spotify / Apple Podcasts In this episode of “Mujeres Fronterizas,” an environmental justice podcast for Sky Island Alliance featuring women in conservation in the borderlands, Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin interviews…
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Creature Feature: Pinacate Beetles
July 28, 2023With monsoon season underway here in the Sky Islands, beetles are all about. Recently, it got me thinking about one of my favorites, which is in the family of darkling…
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Border Wall Settlement Presents Significant Opportunity to Study Wildlife Connectivity Between the U.S. and Mexico
July 26, 2023Last week, the Sierra Club announced its long-awaited settlement in the case Sierra Club v. Biden, which marks a monumental victory for wildlife and borderland communities impacted by illegal wall…
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Intern Stories: First Time in the Pines
July 19, 2023My name is Estefani Moyers, and I’m from Cananea, Sonora — a mining town just south of the Arizona border. And this is a bit of what my first experience…
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Help Survey Patagonia Springs Before New Mining
July 10, 2023July 2024 Update: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued the discharge permit for the Hermosa Mine after an initial scoping comment period, increasing the urgency of our need…
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Mujeres Fronterizas #2: Christian Aguilar Murrieta
July 6, 2023Subscribe: Spotify / Apple Podcasts In this episode of “Mujeres Fronterizas,” an environmental justice podcast for Sky Island Alliance featuring women in conservation in the borderlands, Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin interviews fellow…
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New Maps to Track Monsoon Rain in the Sky Islands
It’s fast approaching our favorite time of year again — when the desert springs to life with the onset of monsoon rains. Although the projections for 2023 are that the…
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Support Historic Bill to Reform U.S. Mining Law
June 22, 2023A new bill has been introduced in Congress that would overhaul the 1872 Mining Law and at last bring the U.S. into the 21st century — ready to meet the…
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