Realities of the Federal Funding Freeze — Q&A
February 6, 2025Sky Island Alliance receives federal funding through multiple land management agencies to implement conservation science, restoration, and community programs both in the U.S. and Mexico. The Trump administration’s unprecedented/illegal pause…
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Support Arizona’s Attorney General in Standing Up to Feds’ Illegal Funding Freeze
January 31, 2025Just two weeks into the Trump administration’s second term, an onslaught of executive orders and a federal funding freeze have brought confusion and chaos, affecting more than 25,000 nonprofits across…
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Update: Our Work Amid the Federal Funding Freeze
Dear friends, I’m touching base with an update and actions to take below. It has been a long and tumultuous 10 days for me and Sky Island Alliance, and I’m…
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Help Study Tucson’s Fossil Fuel Emissions by Counting Traffic and Collecting Invasive Plants
January 30, 2025Did you know that we can identify fossil fuel emissions in the air by sampling annual plants and counting cars? Knowing where greenhouse gases are and at what concentrations can…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Bill Thornton
January 15, 2025Please introduce yourself! Where are you from, and what do you do? My name is William C. (Bill) Thornton. I’m a second-generation Arizona native, lifelong outdoor enthusiast, and conservationist. I’m a retired…
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Mexican Wolves: A Survival Story
January 13, 2025Guest Blog by Phil Hedrick Conservation of the Mexican wolf, a unique subspecies of gray wolf, has been a qualified success, with real progress made in the United States and…
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Sending Sky Island Love to Los Angeles
January 9, 2025As frightening winds blew through the heart of the Sky Islands yesterday, our neighbors in Los Angeles suffered through raging wildfires driven by similar angry winds. My heart is heavy…
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A Look Ahead at 2025
January 7, 2025We’re entering 2025 with our biggest portfolio of projects in recent years! We’ll be out in the Sky Islands working with you — our amazing volunteers and supporters — to…
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Best of 2024: SIA Wildlife Camera Photos
December 19, 2024Every year we review hundreds of thousands of photos as part of our Border Wildlife Study, and in addition to the invaluable data we receive about the presence/absence of species…
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Creating Passage for Wildlife Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
December 9, 2024In this guest blog for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, SIA Program Director Emily Burns shares details on our newly published analysis of animal crossing rates through different types of border…
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