Field Notes
Volunteer Appreciation Party-Friday, April 12
March 15, 2019Join us as we celebrate YOU, our amazing volunteers!
Volunteer Dispatch: Sourcing Devotion: The art of nature, a sublime Sky Island natural spring, pt. 5
June 11, 2018by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer Sky Island Alliance Volunteer Log Springtime 2018 Visit to the Spring “Nature is the Art of God.” – Dante Had we…
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Volunteer Dispatch: Ecology as contemplative practice, pt. 4
March 21, 2018by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer “Darwin’s manner of deep watchfulness allowed the ordinary ground of life to become sanctified, to be brought into Sensus plenoir—a fuller…
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Border BioBlitz
February 12, 2018Sky Island Alliance is participating in the 2018 Border BioBlitz, a one-day communal citizen-science effort to record as many species as possible along a 1-km stretch on each side of…
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Community Volunteer Fair
Sky Island Alliance is joining 70 other local Tucson groups representing social, political, and environmental activism and civic causes for the biggest community volunteer event of the year! Once again,…
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Volunteer Appreciation Party
It takes many hands to get our work done—and we want to show our appreciation for your contribution! Please join us for an evening of fun and community at Tucson…
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Volunteer Dispatch: To everything a season, pt. 3
February 7, 2018by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer “Within the recesses of the forest, even when in the midst of it (the deafening noise of the insects), a universal…
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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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Beat Back Buffelgrass Day – Bear Canyon
November 18, 2015Celebrate Beat Back Buffelgrass Day 2016 with Sky Island Alliance, making a difference in your local wild lands! Help us in our battle against fountain grass, buffelgrass and other invasives in the beautifully riparian, Bear Canyon.