Volunteer Dispatch: The life of a desert spring, pt. 2
October 24, 2017by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer Sky Island Alliance Volunteer Log Monsoon 2017 Visit to the Spring Our first visit to the spring at the height of…
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Volunteer Dispatch: The life of a desert spring
August 3, 2017by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer Sky Island Alliance Volunteer Log Our First Visit to the Spring: Summer 2017 Note to the Reader: the whereabouts of this…
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Pine flycatcher—harbinger of climate change, ray of hope for adaptation
October 4, 2016By Louise Misztal Five years ago I wrote—in the pages of this very newsletter—about the effects of climate change that were already visible in the Sky Islands and that the…
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Hermitage Seep Restoration
August 15, 2015Get muddy with us at this lush site in Rucker Canyon on the western flank of the Chiricahua Mountains! We will be improving the conditions for area bats, pollinators, and Chiricahua leopard frogs.
Spring Assessments in the Santa Ritas
May 18, 2015Help monitor springs in the Santa Rita Mountains, near Madera Canyon. Requires hiking. Camping overnight.
Springs Ecological Assessments
Join us in monitoring a handful of springs located in the cooler high country of the Catalina mountains! This is an overnight camping trip.