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...

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...

AZGFD 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...

AZGFD 2018 Outdoor Expo Saturday, March 24th - Sunday, March 25th, 2018 Volunteers are needed for the annual Game and Fish Outdoor Expo. Volunteer opportunities include helping in: -Family Fishing, where you would be helping youth and families catch fish, pose for pictures and releasing back live fish (8am-5pm shift with a lunch break) -Lake...

Black-footed Ferret Spotlighting Event (March) March 29th - 31st, count concludes early Sunday morning, April 1st.  The Black-footed Ferret Project will again be hosting their spring spotlighting events in Aubrey Valley and on the Double O Ranch, and the project is going to host a 3-night event in March, and a 4-night event in April (see April announcement). Spring...