Highlights From Our 3rd Annual FotoFauna Contest
December 15, 2022On Dec. 15, 2022, we hosted our 3rd annual FotoFauna Contest, in which Sky Island Alliance supporters voted on best photos captured by our volunteers’ remote cameras. Watch the recording…
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Arizona Border Briefing
November 1, 2022On Oct. 5, 2022, shipping containers were first observed on federal land within the Coronado National Forest in the southern Huachuca Mountains — right in the heart of our Border…
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Help Document Dark Skies in the Sky Islands, Oct. 17-26
October 19, 2022In this short talk, Sky Island Alliance staff discuss how artificial lighting threatens the region’s spectacular dark skies, as well as the diversity of life here that needs the dark…
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Training: Intro to Sky Island FotoFauna
September 21, 2022Do you love wildlife in the Sky Islands and have a place where you could place a backyard trail camera? Then this training is for you. In this talk we…
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Coffee Break: “The Forgotten Botanist”
September 1, 2022On Sept. 1, 2022, Sky Island Alliance hosted an exciting conversation with independent scholar, editor, poet, and author Wynne Brown, who shared details from Sara Plummer Lemmon’s life and work,…
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Coffee Break: Fireflies of Arizona and the Sky Islands
July 7, 2022Did you know there are more than 20 different species of fireflies in Arizona? Or that fireflies in our Sky Islands synchronize their flashes, lighting up the night in unison?…
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Coffee Break: Sky Island Geology & Geomorphology
May 19, 2022Have you ever wondered how the Sky Islands were created? How rivers became oriented in certain directions? How vegetation and soils play off each other to create the geographic diversity…
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“American Scar” — Virtual Screening + Q&A
May 5, 2022On May 4, 2022, Sky Island Alliance and allies hosted a virtual screening of the border wall documentary “American Scar,” produced by The New Yorker. Watch the 13-minute documentary and…
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History of Springs in a Northern Sky Island
March 31, 2022This webinar aired on march 31, 2022. Springs are natural features in the Sky Islands that provide life-saving water in a very dry place, which has always made them incredibly…
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Get to Know Your Slimy Neighbors — Desert Snails
February 17, 2022This webinar aired on Feb. 17, 2022. Did you know Arizona has over 200 native species of mollusks? Join us for a special Sky Island Coffee Break with Arizona’s “snail…
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