- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Oracle Road Wildlife Crossing enhancement - Friday
ORGANIZATION: Sky Island Alliance
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Join us in mid-October to enhance wildlife habitat in NW Tucson along the new Oracle Road wildlife bridge! Tasks include digging, moving rocks and installing native plants that will give wildlife more food resources and better conditions to travel from one side to the other.
A new wildlife linkage between the Santa Catalina and Tortolita Mountains will connect two large, separate wildland areas, or habitat blocks, and allow animals to move from one area to another to find food, rest, mate and successfully raise young. Unless wildland habitat blocks are connected, they become isolated islands. Over time, genetic diversity declines and entire species can die out in the isolated areas.
Oracle Road runs north-south, perpendicular to the east-west trending wildlife linkage between the Santa Catalina and Tortolita Mountains, impairing habitat connectivity across the entire linkage. When the Arizona Department of Transportation announced plans to widen this section of Oracle Road from four to six lanes, they recognized a unique opportunity to include landscape-scale wildlife crossings into the project. And now it is almost done!
See full details and register online here:
http://bit.ly/1KFwKbr
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About Sky Island Alliance
Location:
3127 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, US
Mission Statement
Sky Island Alliance is a bi-national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Description
We work with volunteers, scientists, land owners, public officials, and government agencies to establish protected areas, restore healthy landscapes, and promote public appreciation of the region's unique biological diversity.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Santa Catalina Catholic Church14380 N Oracle Rd.Tucson, AZ 85739
DATE POSTED
September 8, 2015
SKILLS
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Science
- Animal Care / Handling
- Habitat Restoration
- Botany
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 10
- 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
- Be prepared to get dirty and don't forget to bring your lunch and lots of water.