Springs Bird Watch: Following the Water and the Life It Supports
October 28, 2026Calling all birders in the Sky Islands! We’re launching a new bird-monitoring project, Springs Bird Watch, to document the region’s avian diversity and the water sources that birds and other…
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Tending Environmental Grief: Part One
October 15, 2026We are living in an era of significant environmental change and loss. In recognizing that these times are challenging to live in, adapt to, and cope with, it’s essential that…
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Valentina Ocampo: A Sonoran Summer to Remember
October 14, 2026My name is Valentina Ocampo, and I’m a student of Natural Resources at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo in Texcoco, Mexico. This summer I had the opportunity to complete an internship…
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Wildlife Cameras Reveal Unexpected Visitors
October 13, 2026This article first appeared in The Desert Leaf and is part of a series featuring the Sky Islands. I keep shallow bowls of water out for wildlife in my front…
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Oppose New Border Wall in the Sky Islands
October 6, 2026Over the past several months, the Trump administration has made it clear it won’t stop until our entire border is militarized and double walled — no matter the cost and…
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Protect Our Public Lands: Tell the Forest Service to Keep the Travel Management Rule
September 17, 2026The U.S. Forest Service is proposing major changes to the Travel Management Rule — the policy that has guided where motor vehicles can travel on our national forests and grasslands…
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Protect Our Roadless Forests — Take Action
September 3, 2026On Aug. 18, the Trump administration announced yet another effort to dismantle our public lands with a new proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which safeguards nearly 45 million…
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Beyond the Surface: Life Inside a Spring
August 26, 2026When I first got involved with SIA’s Spring Seeker program, during my early expeditions, my attention almost always focused on what I could see on the surface: whether the landscape…
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Coatis and Camera Sniffs: My Time as a Wildlife Intern With SIA
August 25, 2026Today marks my final day as a wildlife intern at Sky Island Alliance, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the work I’ve gotten to do here. I joined SIA…
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Save Our Roadless Forests
August 20, 2026On March 31, the Trump administration announced the closure of all U.S. Forest Service regional offices, the gutting of 57 research stations, and the relocation of headquarters from Washington, D.C.,…
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