New Maps to Track Monsoon Rain in the Sky Islands
July 6, 2023It’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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Mapas para rastrear el monzón en las Islas del Cielo
Se acerca rápidamente nuestra época favorita del año nuevamente: cuando el desierto cobra vida con el inicio de las lluvias monzónicas. Aunque las proyecciones para 2023 son que el monzón…
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Maravillosas polillas monzónicas
September 7, 2022Blog invitado de Justin Schmidt y Jillian Cowles En las Islas del Cielo damos por sentado que los monzones de verano traen flores. Pero las flores hermosas como las conocemos…
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Marvelous Monsoon Hawkmoths
Guest Blog by Justin Schmidt and Jillian Cowles We take for granted in the Sky Islands that the summer monsoons bring flowers. But beautiful flowers as we know them today…
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Nuestras formas favoritas de rastrear el monzón
June 29, 2022El monzón es inminente aquí en Tucson, Arizona, y ya comenzó más al sur en Sonora. Crecí en Tucson, y fue un interés temprano en cómo funcionaba el monzón lo…
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Our Favorite Ways to Track the Monsoon
The 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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Watch Six Weeks of Wildlife at the Border during Monsoon
August 26, 2021I remember how loud the crunchy sound of extremely dry grass underfoot was in the San Rafael Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year. For months, we had watched…
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Waiting for Monsoon Rain – Where to Track the Season
June 24, 2020With triple digit temperatures here in Tucson, it’s officially time to start waiting, watching, yearning, and hoping for monsoon rains! Sky Island Alliance staff are known to run out of the…
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