Biologists collect species and explore the ecosystem of the Madrean Sky Islands in Sonora. The mountains of Sonora and southern Arizona represent one of the most biodiverse areas in inland North ...

As mines return across Southern Arizona, community members in the towns ... companies are looking to mine the Sky Islands and surrounding lands for copper, zinc and manganese.

“The Sky Island Mountains are not just beautiful landscapes ... Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona in 2009. It takes time for dragonflies to find a newly hospitable waterway and then pair up, said ...

nine of which are found only in Arizona. That includes four species named for the “sky islands” where the spiders live: A. catalina, A. chiricahua, A peloncillo and A. superstitionense.

Scientists have found a new species of tarantula, a red-reared arachnid, in Arizona, and the discovery ... also known as the Madrean Sky Islands. The "islands" that make up the forested mountain ...

Sky Island Alliance team members Miguel Enríquez ... Colores expects to be able to sell the native grass seeds in Arizona, where habitat restoration efforts have created a demand for them.

Surrounding Rodrigo Sierra Corona in the foothills between the Santa Rita and Patagonia mountain ranges—two of Arizona’s famed Sky Islands that support isolated, high-elevation habitats—were ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity released stunning new video footage today of a rare wild ocelot in a Sky Island mountain range in Arizona, within the ancestral homelands of the ...

Between your own adventures on the local trails, try a new spin on traditional Sonoran spirits, stargaze from a sky island, take in a juried exhibition of local artwork at the Arizona Biennial ...