Ginny Berkey and Annie Maud Over a dozen Nature Club members drove far past Sells to the Tohono O’Odham Cultural Center and Museum for a tour of the new facility. We visited the museum portion before settling down to watch an interesting slide show about the center from the selection of the location to the…
Pam Boedeker Carolyn Campbell, Executive Director of the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, was the February speaker for the SaddleBrooke Nature Club. The Coalition is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Today there are some 40 groups involved in various aspects of a mission to achieve long term conservation of biological diversity and ecological…
Annie Maud Your vocabulary word of the day: Dendrochronology n / the science of dating events by studying growth rings in trees and wood. In 1937 a University of Arizona professor formalized this new science. A. E. Douglass found he could date events in the past by counting tree rings and studying their growth patterns.…
Ginny Berkey The Nature Club began its fall activities with an evening of dinner and music at Oracle State Park. Over 60 members gathered at the large group area to enjoy the afternoon with drinks, appetizers and the company of a female Harris Hawk. Those with cameras were able to take wonderful close-ups of the…
April was a busy month for field trips by the SaddleBrooke Nature Club. April 12 was a journey to the big hole of the Asarco Pima Copper Mine and April 26 was a trip to the heavens and earth at the Flandrau Planetarium and Mineral Museum. Members gathered at the Asarco Mineral Discovery Center just…
Mike Buckley SaddleBrooke Nature Club opened the year with an exciting meeting featuring two live vultures and record attendance. The featured speakers, Anne Peyton and Carol Marshall from Liberty Wildlife in Phoenix, gave outstanding presentations, but the highlight of the program went to Bailey, an adult male Turkey Vulture and Armadillo, an adult female Black…
Pam Boedeker The mission of SaddleBrooke Nature Club is “To appreciate, understand and protect our natural environment through outdoor experiences, education and advocacy.” The club’s Program Committee chaired by Dan Chase has been busy lining up speakers and events with that focus. Members and guests will have some great opportunities in the coming months to…
Dan Chase This year the SaddleBrooke Nature Club will again take donations to be sold at the I Don’t Want It Sale from members of the community to raise support for the Catalina Nature Program at Catalina State Park. Over the past several years the SaddleBrooke Nature Club has been able to contribute several thousands…
Pam Boedeker Bats were the topic of SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s last meeting of the season. Sandy Reith, the speaker, is with Pima County Natural Resources Parks and Recreation. She currently develops and delivers environmental education programs and leads hikes and nature walks in Pima County Parks. Here in Arizona we have 28 species of bats.…
Pam Boedeker May’s SaddleBrooke Nature Club meeting was filled to capacity! The title of the night’s presentation was Animal Mating Game. Our speaker, Sandy Reith, began her talk by assuring members that there was no X or R rated material in her presentation. Sandy has a long history of interest in desert animals. Prior to…