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Donate today to protect pathways for wildlife and Sky Island waters!
Donate today to protect pathways for wildlife and Sky Island waters!
From butterflies in our backyards to jaguars roaming remote hillsides on both sides of the border, with your help we will provide safe passage and restore vital our Sky Island waters.
From butterflies in our backyards to jaguars roaming remote hillsides on both sides of the border, with your help we will provide safe passage and restore vital our Sky Island waters.
Sky Island Heroes
Julie and Billy Martin, Sky Island Heroes
It is with great pleasure that we at Sky Island Alliance announce our new Sky Island Heroes: Billy and Julie Martin! Billy and Julie joined us most recently on a springs assessment trip in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Julie has volunteered on numerous trips since 2015 (the spring assessment was Billy’s second outing), including multiple…
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Sky Island Blog
Volunteer Dispatch: The life of a desert spring
August 3, 2017by Valarie lee James, Sky Island Alliance Adopt-a-Spring volunteer Sky Island Alliance Volunteer Log Our First Visit to the Spring: Summer 2017 Note to the Reader: the whereabouts of this wilderness spring is not revealed to ensure the survival of its unique ecosystem. Deep in a mountain range in southeastern Arizona, dry summer grasses flanking…
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Taking a stand for clean water!
August 1, 2017Join us in defending clean water in the Sky Islands. Last week, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he will move forward to repeal the 2015 Waters of the United States Rule, also known as WOTUS or the Clean Water Rule. This announcement opens a 30-day public comment period. Please take action to preserve this…
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BEE-lieve it or not, it’s National Pollinator Week!
June 21, 2017by Marci Caballero-Reynolds, Doris Duke Conservation Intern National Pollinator Week has arrived, and it’s time to celebrate and learn about our pollinators here in the Southwest. The Sky Island Region contains important migratory corridors for bees, flies, bats, butterflies, moths, ants, birds, and bats that have formed mutualistic relationships to blooming plants. With a rapidly…
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In the News
Tucson VA to Hold Veteran Resource Fair, Town Hall event
June 1, 2017: Tucson News NowEnvironmentalists Face Uphill Battle with Proposed Border Wall
May 14, 2017: Cronkite NewsTrump’s Wall May Threaten Thousands of Plant and Animal Species on the U.S.-Mexico Border
May 10, 2017: Scientific AmericanSky Islands: Magical Mountains Arising from the Middle of Earth’s Deserts
May 2, 2017: Forbes
