Tag: arizona

The Santa Cruz River hasn’t been a reliable source of water since European settlers changed the sustainable water use patterns of Indigenous people like the Hohokam in the late 1800s....

The name of her cabin inspired biologist Jennifer Frey to do a bit of ecological sleuthing. Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico...

Arizona has reported the first cases of avian flu in the Southwest. The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced that federal wildlife officials confirmed the disease in three wild cormorants...

Arizona Game and Fish biologists and road ecologists have been working with the Arizona Department of Transportation and other agencies across the country, advising them on how to build wildlife...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a court-ordered draft revision to its 2017 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, providing measures aimed at reducing human-caused mortality like poaching and vehicle...

By the 1980s, more than 80% of populations of Chiricahua leopard frogs in Arizona and New Mexico had disappeared. The amphibians faced habitat loss, predation by invasive fish like bass...

Decades of fire suppression may be the reason that mountain lion predation is taking a bite out of bighorn sheep numbers in parts of Arizona. Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) evolved...

Crested caracaras are found widely across the American tropics, but the species’ northern range pushes into some of the southernmost states in the U.S. While this falcon is relatively common...

When it comes to snakes, Bryan Hughes is full of helpful advice. His Facebook and blog contains everything from recommendations on how to unstick a snake from a glue trap...

A 15-year-old student recently launched a mobile app game to get children more interested in birding without even having to go outside. Adam Dhalla, the recipient of the 2018 American...