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A few years ago, I took a class called Gardening for Wildlife. In this class, we learned how to create a Certified Wildlife Habitat in our own yard. This program is sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation. Creating a habitat is a great way that we, as Master...

Little did we know what the future had in store for us. What started as a request for volunteers to help with the Butte Creek Restoration project in the fall of 2024 blossomed into four capstone projects for Cohort 4 spanning technology, education, community gardens,...

Local journalist Stan Bindell's Preserving Arizona Wilderness YouTube channel focuses on Arizona's 90 unique and beautiful wilderness areas. Preserving Arizona Wilderness encourages land conservation by providing world class videos about these areas, revealing how...

Last month Gaye Oberlin, Cheryl Alfonse, Sally Davidson and others were successful in banding 5 beautiful kestrels, 3 males and 2 females. Tuk from AZGFD estimated they were about 22-23 days old, so they should be fledging from the box soon.

Based on Jenn Sherman's contributions at Butte Creek, Mariana Althrichter nominated Jenn for an award from the AZ Department of Forestry & Fire Management. Jenn was a finalist and was selected as the Community Tree Advocate of the Year for 2025! Congratulations...

by John Huff When putting together talks about the Central Highlands and Arizona flora and fauna knowing who did the Genus and Species classification is always a curiosity and can be important in knowing how that etymology happened. Finding that information many times...

So many letters, such a long word—but it's simple, or so it seems...and, YOU CAN DO IT! In fact, you DO it every day! Almost every minute!By Barbara Jacobsen For example, try closing your eyes, in order to interpret. What do you hear? Background noise? —foreground...

By Gaye Oberlin Did you ever wish that DoorDash would deliver your dinner to your door every night? No shopping, no cooking, no cleaning up, it sounds like a dream come true for some of us! Well, for some lucky Burrowing Owls this is exactly what they came to expect...

Fall is such a beautiful time of year in our area. Trees glow bright yellow, orange, or red against the backdrop of native evergreen trees. But what about the work when all those leaves fall off the trees? Well, I’m here to remind you that you can leave the leaves,...

Their near extinction, recovery and ongoing struggle By Claire MacBride Once there were 1000’s of Mexican Grey Wolves roaming the American Southwest and Mexico. Prey was abundant and where there was prey and water there were grey wolves. Mexican Grey Wolves are the...