Chiricahua-Peloncillo Heritage Days
August 27, 2024Join us for this two-day festival full of food, music, and fun in the heart of the Sky Islands. Highlights include professional presentations, live music, a farmer’s market, regional field…
Read more »
The Sonoran Desert: A Bee Diversity Hotspot
August 22, 2024Did you know that the Sonoran Desert is a hotspot of bee diversity, home to more than 1,000 species!? How many of these can you name? In this virtual Coffee…
Read more »
From ‘Perrito’ to ‘El Jefe’: My Work With the Northern Jaguar Project
Guest Blog by Dr. Carmina E. Gutiérrez González The jaguar is such an imposing, beautiful, and important species that it’s an honor to be part of projects that support its…
Read more »
Huachuca Tanks Restoration Nearly Complete
August 19, 2024In 2021 the Sierra Vista district of the Coronado National Forest approached Sky Island Alliance with a project idea to improve water sources for wildlife in the southwestern foothills of…
Read more »
The Arizona We Want: The Decade Ahead
August 15, 2024Join SIA staff for a virtual Coffee Break as we host Dr. Sybil Francis and Ian Dowdy from Center for the Future of Arizona. Our guest speakers will review the results of their groundbreaking Gallup Arizona Project. And they’ll share more on what they learned about what an overwhelming majority of Arizonans agree on related to shared appreciation, concern, and aspirations for our air, land, water, and wildlife — plus how Arizonans’ shared public values can shape the decade ahead. Don’t miss this informational talk as we head into election season!
Sky Island Hikes: Mt. Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
August 13, 2024Guest Blog by Sofía Vargas The following is part of a series of recommended Sky Island hikes. Be safe, have fun, and leave no trace. Hiking is one of the best ways…
Read more »
Road Rewilding in the Huachucas (Test)
August 5, 2024Background In 2019, after a years-long public process, the Coronado National Forest decided to close 160 miles of old roads within southern Arizona’s Sierra Vista District that no longer served…
Read more »
Cueva La Mora: A Hidden Gem in Naco, Sonora
In early 2017, the Grupo Pionero Espeleológico de Sonora, a caving group I co-founded, embarked on a trip to the northeast of Sonora to explore Cueva La Mora. Unlike other…
Read more »
Physiological Conservationism: How Protecting the Health of the Desert Also Protects Human Health
Guest Blog and Photos by Sabine Harrington This is part of a series of blogs on “Wellness and Nature Connections.” Stay tuned for more insights from other voices throughout the…
Read more »
The Sonoran Desert: A Bee Diversity Hotspot
July 31, 2024Did you know that the Sonoran Desert is a hotspot of bee diversity, home to more than 1,000 species!? How many of these can you name? Join us for our next virtual Coffee Break to learn more from Kim Franklin, associate director of conservation at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. She’ll take us on a tour of this incredible bee diversity, from the tiny Perdita species that pollinate our tiniest flowers to our gentle giants, the carpenter bees, which are both critical pollinators and pollen “thieves.”