Volunteer Appreciation Night
February 19, 2025Save the date! On March 19, from 5-7 p.m., we’re hosting a gathering at Tucson brew-pub MotoSonora to celebrate you all — volunteers past, present, and future. More details to come. We’re looking forward to seeing you all and bringing folks together to honor the incredible work done this past year throughout the Sky Islands.
Share Your Appreciation for Our National Parks
February 18, 2025Do you have a favorite place or memory in one of the Sky Island region’s multitude of parks that’s special to you? Or have you connected with or been inspired…
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Saving Our Saguaros: Managing Grassification of the Sonoran Desert
February 12, 2025Join us for our next virtual Coffee Break to learn more about a pressing issue in our region and what we can do to help. Our guest speaker will be Kim Franklin, associate director of conservation at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Tracking Urban Emissions Through Plant Radiocarbon and Traffic Modeling
We’re back this spring with another community science project that builds on last year’s efforts and brings two volunteer opportunities to the Tucson area. In this virtual talk, we share…
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Test Delete
February 11, 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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Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App
February 10, 2025Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.
Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App
Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.
Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App
Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.
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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Tucson ‘Spring Cleaning’
February 4, 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.