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Quarterly Newsletter of the Sky Island Alliance Vol. 6 Issue 1 Spring 2003 SpringView from 2003 Heart of Rocks, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Sky Island Alliance 1 Many Thanks to Our Contributors! G. Donald Bain, director of the Geography Computing Fa- cility at U.C. Berkeley Geology Dept.; Randall Herrin, San Di- Sky Island ego Zoo; Neil Mangum, Chiricahua National Monu- Front Cover ment Supervisor; Steve Alliance Marlatt, SIA board member Photo illustration by G. Bodner. and highschool/junior high sci- Protecting View from Heart of Rocks, Chiricahua Mountains, looking over the Sulphur Springs ence teacher in Bowie, AZ; Ben Our Mountain Islands Valley towards Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains. Heart of Rocks lies Onachila, artist and gallery & Desert Seas within the Chiricahua National Monument profiled on page 7. The limestone mine described on page 4 would be visible from here, looking towards the north end of the owner, Bisbee, AZ; Penny Pederson, SIA tracking volun- 520/624-7080 • fax 520/791-7709 Dragoons. If you were to turn around, you’d see Cochise Head, center of this issue’s featured wilderness proposal. Walk south, and a tough hike would take you to visit teer; Kathy Pitts, flora and [email protected] Ben Onachila’s South Fork Cave Creek (page 13) in this same range. A longer walk fauna columnist; Nancy Seever, www.skyislandalliance.org from there across the Sulphur Springs and San Pedro valleys would take you to Ben’s tireless SIA volunteer for all oc- P.O. Box 41165 Carr Canyon in the Huachucas. You’d have to walk North for several days to see the casions; father and son team Tucson, AZ 85717 Taylors’ bighorn sheep in the Mineral Mountains (page 10); you’d be hungry enough Tom and Tomas Taylor, native Office: by then to sample the entire menu at Los Hermanos. Then you could take a siesta and fish enthusiasts with the Middle Historic YWCA read Portal to Paradise, reviewed on page 14. Gila Conservation Partnership, 738 N. 5th Avenue, Suite 201 Tomas now activated to Marine Back Cover Corps duty in Iraq; staff of the KY ISLAND ALLIANCE is a non-profit Photograph of Cochise Head by G. Donald Bain. For Bain’s panoramic views from New Mexico Wilderness Alli- membership organization dedicated S this and other Sky Island sites, visit http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/Arizona/ ance, and, of course, the SIA to restoring and protecting the unique staff listed below. diversity of the Sky Islands of South- CactusCountry.html eastern Arizona, Southwestern New Mexico, and Northern Mexico. S TAFF David Hodges Executive Director Table of Contents [email protected] Memorial for a Mentor...............................................page 3 Acasia Berry Memorial for a Mentor...............................................page 3 Administrative Assistant [email protected] Rambling Rants from the Director’s Desk........page 4 Trevor Hare Dragoons Mine.................................................................page 4 Conservation Biologist [email protected] Burro Mountains Policy and Planning................page 5 Cory Jones GIS Specialist Road Rattlings..................................................................page 6 [email protected] Jennifer Katcher Protected Area Profiles...............................................page 7 Webmaster [email protected] Policy and Law: Sugarloaf Trail..............................page 7 Rachel Kondor Ecosystem Defense and Policy Director Otero Mesa.........................................................................page 8 [email protected] Lisa Labita WildNews Tracking.........................................................page 9 Conservation Biology Intern [email protected] Bighorn in the Mineral Mountaiins.....................page 10 Janice Przybyl Wildlife Monitoring Program Restaurant Review: Los Hermanos.........................page 10 [email protected] Matt Skroch Flora and Fauna...............................................................page 11 Field Program Director [email protected] Poetry......................................................................................pages 12-13 Jennifer W olfsong Legal Intern Book Notes..........................................................................page 14 [email protected] Cochise Head Wilderness.........................................back cover Newsletter Gita Bodner and photo by G. Bodner Dug Schoellkopf, editors Board of Directors Seeking SIA newsletter submissions: Rod Mondt, President Send us your poetry, your words of wisdom, your art! Randall Gray, Vice President As you’ve likely noticed, the quarterly Sky Island Alliance newsletter has expanded into a larger newspaper format. We Nancy Zierenberg, Secretary want to keep it filled with inspirational, informative material, and we’d like your help! Do you write poetry? Draw, sketch, Dale Turner, Treasurer Gita Bodner paint, or photograph? Like to address regional conservation issues? Review books or websites? Anything that relates to the Curtis Bradley 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 Roseann Hanson items in our recent newsletter, comment on your experiences as a volunteer or conference-goer, etc. Also, let us know if you’d Lainie Levick like to be a regular contributor, e.g. with a column each issue. The deadline for our next newsletter is May 8, 2003. Material Rurik List submitted after that date may be saved for subsequent issues. Please email submissions to Gita at [email protected], Carlos Lopez Gonzalez Steve Marlatt or mail them to Sky Island Alliance attn: Gita, P.O. Box 41165, Tucson, AZ 85717. Resolution of digital images should be at Todd Schulke least 300 dpi if possible, but we can work with some lower resolution images. 2 Sky Island Alliance Spring 2003 Reflections Long Time Conservationist and Wildlands Advocate Passes Away ur beloved friend, mentor, and SIA board member TRIBUTE TO A MENTOR OMike Seidman battled liver cancer late last year, passing to for Rasta Mikee Seidman the lands beyond the rainbow on New Years eve... “What is man but slowed down light.” Mike spent over 30 years of his life ad- —Mahatma Ghandi vocating for the protection of wildlife and the habitat they depend upon in the arid From a lifetime away Southwest and Northern Mexico. He the mental reality of decaying flesh was instrumental in the reintroduction will be replaced of the Mexican wolf and the black-footed with fresh blue soul rising ferret, and he worked tirelessly and ad- from the white sand vocated on behalf of the black-tailed prai- and green of nature. rie dog, beaver, jaguar, desert tortoise and other species of concern. That world of confused reasoning, Mike served as the Conservation stifling boxes and painful reflection Officer for the Arizona Zoological Soci- gives way to another: ety and the Phoenix Zoo. He served on one of sparkling pinpoints the Board of the Directors for the Ari- in remote shadows, zona Wilderness Coalition and the Sky a hallucinogenic garden Island Alliance, and was a member of the of freedom and forever-ness. Grazing Clearing House, Arizona Ripar- ian Council, Middle Gila Conservation When you’re walking one-way Partnership, and the Sonoita Valley Plan- through the canyon don’t forget ning Partnership to name but a few issues to turn around at the last moment and organizations he was involved with. Mike brought knowledge, integrity Just before the last bend of granite and passion to every project, discussion, and debate. Whether one agreed or disagreed with Mike, he was to finally observe all those strangers highly respected for his unwavering efforts to protect places dear to all Arizonans. you once knew, once were, once touched With your desert philosophy & words, “I’m going to miss you guys,” he says lift yr hand up to adjust yr dirty cap with a nod of yr head & manage them body dissolving, spirit a smirk. strong as always O brother perhaps clearer now, without an intellectual the clutter of a life’s to-do-list a blues / reggae purist these days we walk the line together a desert environmentalist between past and present the nature man never more aware of the divide return to sand Where saguaros march defiantly stories of ‘My Canyon,’ I reach from creosote always smells of rain ‘My Trail,’ Wolves run free thru the grasslands and coatis wake you from your sleep. and suddenly “I’m going to miss you guys,” triangulating on —dp randahl dec 2002 the mystery of future “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child — gb, Oct. 2002 a long way from home Mike’s family has requested that those Sometimes I feel like a motherless child and I’m almost gone wishing to express their appreciation for Sing freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, Mike and his work may direct memorial con- freedom, freedom .....” Mexican wolf gets her puppy shots tributions to the Sky Island Alliance at P.O. — richie havens Box 41165, Tucson, Arizona 85717-1165. Spring 2003 Sky Island Alliance 3 Keeping the “Public” in Public Lands Friends, I trust that this finds you in good spir- land management agencies The Sugarloaf minates the thought pro- its in spite of these trying times. It is cer- trail article (pg. 7) is a good example of pub- cess of much of the upper tainly tough to remain positive in the face lic comment leading to a positive outcome. echelon working in federal of world events, the economy, and an You will also read about a proposed mine in agencies
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