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Winter 2002-03 Sky Island Alliance 1 Agave Palmeri, Peloncillo Newsletter of the Sky Island Alliance Vol. 5 Issue 4 Winter 2002-2003 WinterAgave palmeri2002-03, Peloncillo Mountains, NM Sky Island Alliance 1 Front Cover The Palmer agave is a Sky Island spe- cialist, growing in savanna between 3,000 and 6,000 feet elevation. The pink color peculiar to A. palmeri’s leaves de- velops as the plant base works to pro- duce a flowering stalk some 20 feet tall. Like other “century plants,” an indi- Sky Island vidual will grow for decades before put- ting all its years of accumulated energy Alliance into sending up one glorious flowering stalk. This candelabra-shaped stalk, Protecting Many Thanks to Our Contributors! which can grow several inches in one Our Mountain Islands Joe Cicero, SIA Volunteer of the Year 2002; Joan Eerkes, SIA tracking volun- day, bears a plant’s entire hopes for car- & Desert Seas teers; Lisa Naas, guest feature, The Nature Conservancy; Penny Pederson, SIA rying its genes into the next generation. tracking volunteer; Kathy Pitts, flora and fauna columnist; Bob VanDeven, long- Nectar from Palmer agave flowers helps 520/624-7080 • fax 520/791-7709 time SIA volunteer; Tiffany Voltz, SIA volunteer and Sonoran Desert biologist; Pe- fuel the epic migrations of Leptonycteris ter Warshall, “maniacal sky islands naturalist,” and, of course, the SIA staff. bats, as well as feeding hummingbirds, [email protected] moths, bees, and occasionally even www.skyislandalliance.org climbing coatamundis. Pollination by P.O. Box 41165 nectar bats may determine, in part, the Tucson, AZ 85717 plant’s patchy distribution. Office: Table of Contents Palmer agaves are called Historic YWCA “lechuguillas” by people of northeastern 738 N. 5th Avenue, Suite 201 Sonora (a name used for other agaves in Rambling Rants from the Director’s Desk...... page 3 various regions), where it is still used to produce food, fiber, and especially bev- KY ISLAND ALLIANCE is a non-profit Cowshit and Frogs.........................................................page 3 S membership organization dedicated erages. The plant’s sap can be used to to restoring and protecting the unique WildNews: Tracking.......................................................page 4 make a lightly-fermented, nutritious diversity of the Sky Islands of South- drink called pulque, or can be heavily fer- eastern Arizona, Southwestern New Roadless Areas.................................................................page 5 mented and distilled into a smoky-fla- Mexico, and Northern Mexico. vored tequila-style liquor called Protected Area Profiles...............................................page 6 bacanora. Among agave species in the S TAFF region, A. palmeri has one of the lowest David Hodges David Hodges Geology and Soils..........................................................page 7 concentrations of bitter compounds Executive Director [email protected] Galiuro Mountains..........................................................page 8 called saponins, making it an excellent Acasia Berry food plant. The species has been a re- Administrative Assistant gional food staple for millenia. (photo by [email protected] G. Bodner) Trevor Hare Conservation Biologist We’d like to welcome SIA’s newest [email protected] board member, biologist Carlos Cory Jones Lopez GonzalezGonzalez. Many of you will GIS Specialist recognize Carlos from the superb jag- [email protected] uar lecture he gave in February 2002 Jennifer Katcher as part of the SIA lecture series. Webmaster Carlos co-authored the book, Border- [email protected] land Jaguars, with David E. Brown. Rachel Kondor Ecosystem Defense and Policy Director Carlos received his PhD in ecology [email protected] from the Universidad Nacional Arizona Sycamore.............................................................page 9 Lisa Labita Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. Conservation Biology Intern He has also written and co-authored [email protected] Many-Legged Chronicles..............................................page 9 many scientific articles and papers, Janice Przybyl Restaurants and Recipes.............................................page 10 which have appeared in Acta Zoologica Wildlife Monitoring Program Mexicana, The Southwestern Naturalist, [email protected] Poetry......................................................................................page 10 Journal of Wildlife Diseases among oth- Matt Skroch ers. He is now a professor and re- Field Program Director Road Rattlings...................................................................page 11 searcher at the Universidad Autonoma [email protected] de Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico. Jennifer W olfsong Whetstone Mountain Wilderness...................back cover Carlos also co-coordinates the North- Legal Intern [email protected] ern Jaguar Project, which you can learn more about at www.sonoran Newsletter photo by Bob VanDeven jaguar.org. Gita Bodner and Dug Schoellkopf, editors Board of Directors Seeking SIA newsletter submissions: Rod Mondt, President Mike Seidman, Vice President Send us your poetry, your words of wisdom, your art! Nancy Zierenberg, Sec./Treasurer As you’ve likely noticed, the quarterly Sky Island Alliance newsletter has expanded into a larger newspaper format. We Gita Bodner want to keep it filled with inspirational, informative material, and we’d like your help! Do you write poetry? Draw, sketch, Curtis Bradley paint, or photograph? Like to address regional conservation issues? Review books or websites? Anything that relates to the Randall Gray Roseann Hanson Sky Islands region is fair game! We’d also like to start a Letters to the Editor section. Send us a note! You can respond to Lainie Levick items in our recent newsletter, comment on your experiences as a volunteer or conference-goer, etc. Also, let us know if you’d Rurik List like to be a regular contributor, e.g. with a column each issue. The deadline for our next newsletter is February 8, 2003. Carlos Lopez Gonzalez Material submitted after that date may be saved for subsequent issues. Please email submissions to Gita at Steve Marlatt [email protected], or mail them to Sky Island Alliance attn: Gita, P.O. Box 41165, Tucson, AZ 85717. Resolution Todd Schulke of digital images should be at least 300 dpi if possible, but we can work with some lower resolution images. Dale Turner 2 Sky Island Alliance Winter 2002-03 Rambling Rants from the Director’s Desk for unprecedented public Friends, and watering hole reviews; articles on ecol- participation. What this I hope this finds you well and in good ogy, history, culture; nature writing, fic- really means is that the pub- spirits. As we approach the end of another tion, book and movie reviews, opinion; or lic will be allowed an oppor- year it seems an appropriate time to re- just about anything that pertains to the Sky tunity for input in the early flect on our accomplishments while look- Islands; and, don’t forget to send letters to stages, while the Forest Service ing to the challenges the future brings – the editors! is under no obligation to use that and they are many. One of the most ex- The greatest challenge facing us in the input! When the final plan is citing occurrences this year was the Sky near future comes from Washington, DC. then produced there will be Island Wildlands Network (SIWN) Con- In the recent elections the Republican neither a public comment ference in October. This event drew more Party took control of the Senate by one period nor opportunity for than 300 people for two days of fun and vote, due to four races decided by just a the public to appeal the learning. A major objective was to host a few thousand votes. Unfortunately, the plan – even if it’s terrible. conference for people working and living Bush administration has taken these results In addition to these laws, in the Sky Islands Region, by people as a mandate to overturn or gut virtually the administration has changed or pro- working and living here. Many people every environmental law that protects our trained 30 new Wildlife Monitoring vol- posed significant changes to laws and rules were surprised at the quality and breadth fragile landscape. Suddenly, resource in- unteers this year and we now have 52 folks that govern clean air, clean water, mining of work going on in the Sky Islands (we dustry lobbyists are writing regulations monitoring transects in southeast Arizona. site reclamation and cleanup, off-shore de- could easily have done a four day confer- and helping create policy at the expense We will train and place another 30 in 2003, velopment, roadless areas, and the way in ence) and presenters were pleased at both of public participation. The National En- including our first volunteers in New which imperiled species are managed. The the opportunity to share their work and vironmental Policy Act (NEPA), long re- Mexico. Our Ecosystem Defense program most appalling aspect of this power grab to also learn about all the cool stuff hap- garded as the Magna Carta of environmen- will continue to monitor and influence is that these new regulations were devel- pening on their home turf. tal law, is squarely in the crosshairs. This agency decisions to insure that they are oped in secrecy with industry input but During the conference, we recognized law requires review of the environmental compatible with healthy landscapes, re- none from the public. Maybe some folks several people with Conservation Awards impacts of federal
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