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Restoration: Is It Gone Forever, Or Can We Get It Back? Restoration: Is it gone forever, or can we get it back? A road in the Dragoon Mts. listed as closed in the Forest Service inventory, ...and the same road—now a trail—after SIA decommissioned it, 2004 1999... Sky Island Alliance volunteers hard at work, closing roads and restoring the land Ft. Bowie’s grassland restoration Holding your ground and getting your water back Remember the Sierra de Álamo Holy Galloping Gullies, Batman! SIA bids farewell to two friends Bob VanDeven exposed: centerfold Buffelgrass outlawed, almost Reconnecting habitat divided by higthways Harvesting rainwater for restoration Packrats preserving the past Alliance outings & other events Spring-Summer 2005 1 Sky Island Alliance Many Thanks to Our Contributors! Campaign for America’s Wilderness communication guru Rachel Bocchino, Sky Island who has the enviable job of letting New Board Members people know how terrific they (and their Alliance neighbors) are; Watershed restoration SIA welcomes two stellar advisors to our board of directors. Angel entrepreneur Jarred Buono; Frog fan, Protecting Montoya (Las Cruces, NM) obtained both his B.S. and M.S. de- volunteer, and writing teacher Jefferson Our Mountain Islands grees from New Mexico State University in Wildlife Science. He Carter; Corredor Colibri’s lively restora- tion master Jennie Duberstein; Tucson & Desert Seas has worked as a refuge biologist with two National Wildlife Ref- uges. Angel is currently working for The Peregrine Fund on aplomado Audubon Society’s Ann Phillips, Manager falcon restoration and monitoring efforts in the Southwestern US of Restoration Projects; Randy Seraglio, 520/624-7080 • fax 520/791-7709 and Northern Mexico. Since 1996 he has conducted research on a the volunteer who always looks guilty [email protected] population of falcons in Chihuahua, Mexico. He has a strong inter- no matter how innocent he really is; epi- www.skyislandalliance.org est in bird and plant communities occurring in desert grasslands. curean Tumacacori friends Nick and P.O. B ox 41165 Chris Roll (Apache Junction, AZ) currently works as an attorney Birdie Stabel; Silver City, New Mexico’s Tucson, AZ 85717 in the civil division of the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, located in gully-fix-it master Van Clothier; long- Sky Island Alliance is a non- Florence, AZ. Chris previously served as the Cochise County Attor- time volunteer and stargazer Tim VanDevender, who grew up with a pack profit membership organization ney from 1999 through 2004. Prior to law school at the University of rat in his locker; native plant booster dedicated to restoring and Arizona, Chris obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in botany and plant pathology at that same university. An Arizona native, he was and long time SIA board member protecting the unique diversity raised on a ranch in Southeastern Arizona. Botany and evolutionary Nancy Zierenberg; and, of course, the of the Sky Islands of Southeast- biology continue to be his avocation. He enjoys hiking and the out- SIA staff. Special thanks go to Bob ern Arizona, Southwestern New doors, and hopes to use his knowledge and experience to assist the VanDeven and Vince Walkosak, who Mexico, and Northern Mexico. Sky Island Alliance in pursuing its goals and staying out of trouble. contributed more to our lives than they could have imagined. STAFF Matt Skroch Executive Director [email protected] David Hodges Table of Contents Policy Director [email protected] Rambling Rants from the Director’s Desk.........................................................................................................................3 Acasia Berry Restoration and restitution..........................................................................................................................................4 Associate Director [email protected] Ft. Bowie restoration................................................................................................................................................5 Trevor Hare Restoration at El Coronado Ranch and beyond....................................................................................................6 Conservation Biologist [email protected] Reining in galloping gullies.............................................................................................................................7 Cory Jones Planning Coordinator Protecting Sierra de Alamos........................................................................................................................8 [email protected] In Memoriam............................................................................................................................................9 Janice Przybyl Wildlife Monitoring Program CENTERFOLD SPECIAL: Bob VanDeven exposed...............................................................................10 [email protected] Mike Quigley Buffelgrass listed as noxious weed................................................................................................12 Wilderness Campaign Coordinator Packrats oreserving the past....................................................................................................13 [email protected] Sergio Avila Restoration in Mexico and endangered plants.....................................................................13 Friends of the Tumacacori Highlands Wild News..........................................................................................................................14 outreach [email protected] Road Rattlings...............................................................................................................15 Gita Bodner Watershed Management Group and Tucson Audubon’s restoration wor..................16 Conservation planning and outreach [email protected] The Guilty Volunteer.............................................................................................17 Sky Jacobs Office Assistant Tumacacori update, restaurant review, and wilderness hero........................18 Newsletter Alliance Notes, field schedule......................................................................19 Gita Bodner, general editor Dug Schoellkopf, production editor Board of Directors Seeking SIA newsletter submissions: Paul Hirt, President Send us your poetry, your words of wisdom, your art! Steve Marlatt, Vice President We want to keep this newsletter filled with inspirational, informative material, and we’d like your help! Do Nancy Zierenberg, Secretary Dale Turner, Treasurer you write poetry? Draw, sketch, paint, or photograph? Like to address regional conservation issues? Review Lainie Levick books or websites? Anything that relates to the Sky Islands region is fair game! You can respond to items in our Rurik List recent newsletter, comment on your experiences as a volunteer or conference-goer, etc. Also, let us know if Carlos Lopez Gonzalez you’d like to be a regular contributor, e.g. with a column each issue. The deadline for our next newsletter is Rod Mondt August 1, 2005. Material submitted after that date may be saved for subsequent issues. Please email submis- Angel Montoya Chris Roll sions to [email protected], or mail them to Sky Island Alliance attn: Gita, P.O. Box 41165, Todd Schulke Tucson, AZ 85717. Resolution of digital images should be at least 300 dpi if possible. Give your favorite small- town restaurant a boost by writing a review and letting us promote it! 2 Sky Island Alliance Spring-Summer 2005 ch- ch- ch- changes: Staff plays musical chairs lease welcome Cory Jones as our new Public next 20 years. Cory will be our point person work- area. He’ll also be scouting new jaguar research op- PLand Planning Coordinator. Your generous ing with other organizations, agencies, and individuals portunities across the imaginary line dividing our response to our Special Giving Campaign helped to make sure these plans consider the biological and Sky Islands into two nations. Keep an ear out for his fund this position, and volunteers’ fieldwork will historical uniqueness of our region and are based on patented roar-in-a-bucket jaguar call. help us show what the land actually needs. Thank the best available science. Just below Map Guru and Jaguar Whisperer in you! Previously, as a part-time work-study grunt, Sergio Avilavila, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, has a the staff hierarchy come various “directors.” Former Cory made SIA’s stellar maps between classes at bachelor’s degree in biology from Universidad de Program Director Matt Skroch is now on the hot the University of Arizona. When he graduated, we Aguascalientes and masters in arid lands management seat as Executive Director. Outgoing ED David snapped up this talented fellow and expanded his from Universidad de Baja California. Sergio comes Hodges is pleased to return to more program work responsibilities with this new job (plus, it would be to SIA fresh from tracking jaguars in the Sierra as Policy Director. Expect to see David in the field dangerous to have such mapping knowledge fall Madre with the Northern Jaguar Project. This bi- more, and send Matt your condolences for being into the wrong hands). The Coronado National lingual punster has taken time from his tent-in-the- stuck in the office or out hobnobbing with other Forest and BLM are both revising the management field lifestyle to help promote Wilderness with the bigwigs! Read about this change in their own plans that will guide the
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