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AZGFD Black-tailed Prairie Dog Supplemental Feeding and Visual Counts
Help the Arizona Game and Fish Dept. with Black-tailed Prairie Dogs at Las Cienegas Supplemental Feeding Help feed prairie dogs at Las Cienegas until the monsoon rains come and the grasses grow in July! Walk around colonies and place a small handful of pellets in each active (fresh diggings, scat, or prairie dogs) burrow. Alfalfa pellets are already on site near the observation towers. Volunteers are needed at least once a week every week until July. Sign up on the…
Find out more »Boyce Thompson Arboretum – Edible/Medicinal Desert Plants Walk
Edible/Medicinal Desert Plants Walk Boyce Thompson Arboretum Sunday, July 23rd @ 8:00 AM Learn the edible and medicinal uses of native desert plants on a walk along our Curandero Trail guided by desert plants enthusiast Jim Shepherd. This leisurely one-hour walk is your chance to learn about prickly pear cacti, ratany, agaves, jojobas – and the ways native plants have fed, healed and clothed Sonoran desert peoples for more than one thousand years. Summertime tours start at 8:00AM July 23 and…
Find out more »Boyce Thompson Arboretum – Learn Your Lizards Guided Walks
Learn Your Lizards Guided Walks Boyce Thompson Arboretum July 29th & 30th @ 8:00 AM The final weekend of July is special, two days with back-to-back lizard walks each day at 8:00AM. This entertaining guided tour around the gardens is not just for kids -- our popular lizard walks are for all who enjoy Arizona's most common, colorful and charismatic little reptiles. Guides include 'Wild Man Phil' Rakoci and his son Arch, also Arizona Game and Fish researcher Dan Leavitt and…
Find out more »Arizona Antelope Foundation: Government Prairie Fence Modification Project
Arizona Antelope Foundation Habitat Project: Government Prairie Fence Modification August 12, 2017 Project Location: We will be working 17 miles west of Flagstaff and 11 miles north of Interstate 40 in the Spring Valley/Government Prairie area. Project Begins: Saturday August 12th, please arrive at camp by 8:00 AM. This is a one day project for all attendees. Project Activity: We will be removing fencing around a wildlife water and modifying fencing to pronghorn friendly standards in various locations. Pronghorn Benefits:…
Find out more »Boyce Thompson Arboretum – Edible/Medicinal Desert Plants Walk
Edible/Medicinal Desert Plants Walk Boyce Thompson Arboretum Sunday, August 27th @ 8:00 AM Learn the edible and medicinal uses of native desert plants on a walk along our Curandero Trail guided by desert plants enthusiast Jim Shepherd. This leisurely one-hour walk is your chance to learn about prickly pear cacti, ratany, agaves, jojobas – and the ways native plants have fed, healed and clothed Sonoran desert peoples for more than one thousand years. Summertime tours start at 8:00AM July 23 and…
Find out more »AZTWS Newsletter Submission Deadlines – Third Friday of Every Third Month!
!!AZTWS Newsletter Submissions!! Do something wild and share your wildlife experiences with AZTWS! The deadline for submitting materials to be included in the Newsletter is the third Friday of every third month. Possible submissions include articles (preferably with photos), meeting/event announcements, project updates (one-two paragraphs), job announcements, volunteer opportunities, and photographs. If you have any items you would like to share, please send them to the newsletter editor, Tiffany Sprague, at aztwseditor@gmail.com . THANKS! Dates: March 17th; June 16th; September 15th;…
Find out more »AZGFD Cormorant Counts: September
Count Cormorants with the Arizona Game & Fish Dept. The AZGFD needs your help in conducting research statewide to characterize cormorant populations and their distributions and impacts on fish. Three options for helping out: Assist with a one-day cormorant count at assigned water bodies or within a specific area that may contain multiple waters. You can sign up to help on any or all of the count dates (see below). This statewide count will take place during 7:00 AM…
Find out more »SIA: Pollinator Planting @ Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Pollinator Planting @ Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument September 21st -24th @ 10AM - 8PM Bryon: 520-624-7080 ext. 27 PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TRIP IS STILL TENTATIVE, AND DATES MAY YET CHANGE. HOWEVER, DO KEEP IT ON YOUR RADAR, ‘CAUSE THESE GILA CLIFF TRIPS ARE AWESOME! Registration will open soon… THE WORK: Sky Island Alliance is teaming up with the National Park Service and Borderlands Restoration to restore a recently-burned slope near the main ruin loop at the monument. Volunteers will be installing…
Find out more »McDowell Sonoran Conservancy: Butterfly Counts
Join the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy in their annual butterfly counts. Be part of a team of butterfly experts and citizen scientists who identify the butterflies of the Preserve. For more information on this event, email citizen_science@mcdowellsonoran.org
Find out more »Arizona Antelope Foundation Habitat Project Bonita
Arizona Antelope Foundation Habitat Project: Bonita September 30th, 2017 TO BE ANNOUNCED
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