White-tailed deer

Border Wildlife Study Talk at Phoenix Zoo

October 25, 2024

Since 2020, Sky Island Alliance has used wildlife cameras to investigate the impacts of border walls on wildlife movement. For this talk, SIA Wildlife Program Manager Eamon Harrity and Program…
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Coffee Break: Updates From Our Border Wildlife Study

October 24, 2024

Through our Border Wildlife Study, Sky Island Alliance has monitored wildlife along nearly 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border for 4.5 years, and we are excited to share some of…
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Need a Halloween Costume? Try Our Javelina Mask!

October 21, 2024

Are you still looking for a Halloween costume, or are you just a crafty, javelina fan? You can make this fun javelina mask to wear and/or hang on your wall….
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Ofrenda

An Offering for Día de los Muertos

October 15, 2024

We at Sky Island Alliance recently had the opportunity to honor wildlife killed at the U.S.-Mexico border wall by creating a Día de los Muertos ofrenda, or altar, on display…
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Border Wildlife Study

Coffee Break: Updates From Our Border Wildlife Study

October 1, 2024

Through our Border Wildlife Study, we have monitored wildlife along nearly 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border for 4.5 years, and we are excited to share some of the insights…
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Lesser long-nosed bat approaching an agave.

Flying Connections: The Story of Lesser Long-Nosed Bats and Agaves in the Sky Islands

September 24, 2024

Guest blog by Axhel Muñoz Great charismatic mammals like the jaguar and ocelot grace the Sky Island mountains of Sonora and Arizona, but there are other endearing creatures that inhabit…
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Seeding

Road Rewilding in the Huachucas

September 18, 2024

Join SIA as we physically decommission closed roads in the southern foothills of the Huachuca Mountains. We’ll be camouflaging roads with rocks and woody debris, reseeding native plants, building erosion-control…
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Cave Creek Canyon

Chiricahua-Peloncillo Heritage Days

August 27, 2024

Join 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…
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Black bear at Joaquin Tank

Huachuca Tanks Restoration Nearly Complete

August 19, 2024

In 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…
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Sonoran Desert bee

The Sonoran Desert: A Bee Diversity Hotspot

July 31, 2024

Did 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.”