CACA: Is fire changing our Arizona Upland plant communities?
Desert Botanical Garden 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesCentral Arizona Conservation Alliance Join us for the first Speaker Series event of 2018! Understanding how fire is changing our Arizona Upland plant communities with Kara Barron, Research Assistant at the Desert Botanical Garden. With fires occurring more frequently in the Sonoran Desert, understanding how plant communities respond will inform effective land management practices....
Leave No Trace, Train the Trainer training
Black Canyon City Heritage Park 33955 Old Black Canyon Hwy, Black Canyon City, AZ, United StatesLeave No Trace, Train the Trainer training Hosted by the BLM February 28th, 2018 @ 9:00 - 11:00AM Location: Black Canyon City Heritage Park (33955 Old Black Canyon Hwy, Black Canyon City, AZ 85324) Leave No Trace training is intended for individuals who lead groups or interact with the public, but is open to anyone. The training...
Jackrabbit Survey
Jackrabbit Survey Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 Survey Details: Surveys are walking transect surveys. Surveyors spread out in a line about 20m apart and walk forward, flushing jackrabbits as they walk, and record each animal. Each survey is about a mile long. The desert terrain varies from flat and lightly vegetated to hilly, rocky, and heavily...
AZGFD Cormorant Counts: March
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...
Phoenix Zoo – “The Ark and Beyond” Book release!
Phoenix Zoo 455 N Galvin Pkwy , Phoenix, Arizona, United StatesMARCH 21 | 5:30 – 8 P.M. PHOENIX ZOO STONE HOUSE PAVILION FREE TO THE PUBLIC, Can zoos save the world? Authored by a top-flight group of zoo and aquarium leaders, historians, biologists, ethicists, and social scientists, “The Ark and Beyond” (published by the University of Chicago Press) traces the history and considers the present and future...
AZGFD Black-tailed Prairie Dog Monitoring
Sonoita, Arizona Sonoita, AZ, United StatesAZGFD Black-tailed Prairie Dog Monitoring AZGFD is looking for citizen scientists to document black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD), along with other species, weather conditions and more in Sonoita, Arizona. There is now a smart phone application to streamline data collection and volunteers are needing to help test the app. Volunteers are needed any day of the...