Tucson ‘Spring Cleaning’
April 14, 2025Join our campaign to remove invasive species at nine priority springs in the Tucson area. Together, we can restore these crucial wildlife oases! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning and be working mostly in the Sabino Canyon area on the northeast side of town and near Vail and Davidson Canyon on the southeast side. Stay as long as you like, and leave for work if you need to. This is a great way to create an impact, get in a workout, and meet other volunteers.
Road Rewilding in the Huachucas
April 9, 2025Join SIA for a weekend of camping as we physically decommission closed roads in the southwestern foothills of the Huachuca Mountains.
Wildlife Photos Exhibit in Agua Prieta
April 8, 2025SIA highlight photos and videos of wildlife, including ones from our FotoFauna and Border Wildlife Study cameras, as well as moments captured out in the field, will be on display in Agua Prieta, Sonora. So if you’re in the area, join us! Entrance is free, and the exhibit will be showing in the museum until June. But if you come this first night at 5 p.m., you can hear SIA Wildlife Specialist Miguel Enríquez share some stories about the photos, many of which he took. Folks from Cuenca Los Ojos, our collaborators in this exhibit, will also be there to speak and share highlight photos and videos.
Celebrate the San Pedro
Join us and other local conservation groups for this celebration of the San Pedro River. Activities include a bird count challenge, nature hikes, kids activities, informational displays, and 11 different speakers, including SIA Mexico Program Manager Zach Palma, who will speak at noon.
Workshop: Springs Trip Planning and Navigation
April 4, 2025Join SIA staff for an evening at our Tucson office getting ready for upcoming volunteer trips to visit springs within the Sky Islands. Topics covered will include: reading maps and satellite images, navigation aides on desktop computers and smartphones, making tracks and reading elevations and contours on maps, planning backcountry vs. trail walks, etc. With these skills, you’ll be ready to volunteer with confidence.
Border BioBlitz in the San Rafael Valley
April 3, 2025Calling birders, botanists, bug lovers, trackers, herpers, fungi folk, and naturalists of all sorts! Join us this May 3 in the San Rafael Valley of Arizona for a day of surveying as part of this year’s annual border bioblitz. Using the iNaturalist app, our goal will be to identify as many species as possible to document the amazing diversity of life in our borderlands.
Border BioBlitz in Sonora
April 2, 2025Calling birders, botanists, bug lovers, trackers, herpers, fungi folk, and naturalists of all sorts! Join us this May 24-25 at Cuenca Los Ojos ranch near Agua Prieta, Sonora, for a weekend of camping and surveying as part of this year’s annual border bioblitz. Using the iNaturalist app, our goal will be to identify as many species as possible to document the amazing diversity of life in our borderlands. Campers are welcome to arrive at Cuenca Los Ojos ranch on Friday, May 23. Then on Saturday we’ll be surveying in the Animas Valley within the ranch. And on Sunday we’ll head to another part of the ranch in the San Bernardino Valley.
Update on Our Migratory Bird Monitoring in Sonora
April 1, 2025In this virtual Coffee Break, SIA Wildlife Program Manager Eamon Harrity and Mexico Program Manager Zach Palma share latest news with our new project bridging grassland bird conservation and regenerative…
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Help Restore Tucson’s Barrel Spring
March 31, 2025Calling all weekend warriors: On Sunday, April 13, we’re hosting a single-day volunteer event as part of our Tucson spring cleaning campaign to restore desert wildlife oases. This time we’ll be at Barrel Spring, near our other current project site, on the northeast side of town. Your help is needed to stop invasive arundo from spreading downstream, where it could eventually reach Sabino Creek.
Remembering and Honoring Raúl Grijalva
March 19, 2025We were deeply saddened last week to learn of the death of longtime Tucson Congressman Raúl Grijalva. Congressman Grijalva was a stalwart champion for so much that Sky Island Alliance has…
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