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SIA: Wilderness Waters: Chiricahuas – Turkey Creek Springs
SIA Wilderness Waters: Chiricahuas - Turkey Creek Springs July 21, 2018 @ 7:00am - July 22, 2018 @ 8:00pm This will be a car camping trip to assess some springs in the Chiricahua Wilderness. SIA has taken on a project to help the Coronado National Forest inventory and assess water resources in the Galiuro, Miller Peak, Rincon, Chiricahua, Mt. Wrightson, Pajarita, and Santa Teresa Wilderness Areas. This weekend, we will be working to assess springs and other water resources in…
Find out more »2018 BioBlitz & BBQ
The CHARLIE W. PAINTER BIOBLITZ & BBQ is an annual event to honor the life and work of Charlie and as a fundraiser to support research through the CHARLES W. PAINTER GRANT in HERPETOLOGY Where?: The Chiricahua Desert Museum, NM 80 & Portal Road; Rodeo, NM 88056 When?: July 27-28, 2018 A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Teams of volunteer scientists, naturalists, families, students, teachers, and other community members…
Find out more »SIA: Native Plantings at Ramsey Canyon Ponds
SIA Native Plantings at Ramsey Canyon Ponds July 30, 2018 @ 3:00pm - August 1, 2018 @ 6:00pm SIA is partnering with The Nature Conservancy’s Ramsey Canyon Preserve to install native plants around some newly created ponds. Many native animals are sure to benefit from this new habitat, and we want to jump start the revegetation process with some plants that will be beneficial to as many species as possible. PROJECT SCHEDULE & LOCATION Volunteers can either join us…
Find out more »SIA: Water Roots: Exclusive screening of Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers & Tides
SIA Water Roots: Exclusive screening of Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides July 31, 2018 @ 7:30pm - 9:30pm Join us for a special screening and panel discussion, hosted by the Loft Cinema in partnership with Sky Island Alliance and University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center. Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Scottish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows,…
Find out more »SIA Aravaipa Canyon Vinca Removal
Aravaipa Canyon Vinca Removal August 9th, 2018 @ 2:30pm - August 12th, 2018 @ 6:00pm THE WORK: Sky Island Alliance has been helping TNC and the BLM in Aravaipa Canyon for several years on a variety of projects to increase watershed health along this perennial riparian area. During this trip we are continuing our work to remove the invasive plant vinca (or periwinkle) from the understory of the creek banks. This will require digging and fastidious removal of root…
Find out more »16th Annual on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles
16th Annual on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles August 12 - 15, 2018 Hilton Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX The 16th annual Symposium will be hosted in Fort Worth, Texas at the historic Hilton Fort Worth. The meeting, sponsored by Zoo Med Laboratories, Inc., is co-hosted by the Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG). Events will commence with an ice-breaker held at the conference hotel, the Hilton Fort Worth,…
Find out more »SIA Walnut Collection Trip
Walnut Collection Trip August 15th, 2018 @ 8:30am - 4:30pm BACKGROUND Sky Island Alliance is partnering with the National Forest Service and Borderlands Restoration to create a diverse plant palette for restoration work in Bear Canyon! Walnuts are especially important because they provide food for the Santa Catalina gray squirrel, a sub-species of the Arizona gray squirrel that seems to be less common than it used to be due to habitat changes and competition with the introduced Abert’s squirrel. The…
Find out more »2018 Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Meeting
SW PARC Meeting September 6 - 9, 2018 Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown, Oklahoma City, OK Save the Date! The 2018 SW PARC annual meeting will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, September 6-9, 2018. Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SWPARC) is a regional working group of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC). PARC is an inclusive partnership dedicated to the conservation of herpetofauna–reptiles and amphibians–and their habitats. http://www.swparc.org/meetings/2018-meeting/
Find out more »SIA Aravaipa Canyon Vinca Removal
SIA Aravaipa Canyon Vinca Removal September 13th, 2018 @ 2:30pm - September 16th, 2018 @ 6:00pm THE WORK: Sky Island Alliance has been helping TNC and the BLM in Aravaipa Canyon for several years on a variety of projects to increase watershed health along this perennial riparian area. During this trip we are continuing our work to remove the invasive plant vinca (or periwinkle) from the understory of the creek banks. This will require digging and fastidious removal of root…
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