Howard Cohen, Co-President, SaddleBrooke Nature Club Mount Lemmon is named after Sara Plummer Lemmon, a forgotten botanist who was rediscovered by Wynne Brown, a writer, editor, illustrator, and the speaker at the May SaddleBrooke Nature Club meeting. Sara Plummer Lemmon lived from 1836 to 1908. Her husband, whom she married when she was 44, was…
Howard Cohen The SaddleBrooke Nature Club met on March 14 at the DesertView Theater. The speakers were Cheryl Shearer and Gordon Nuttall. Cheryl is a Sabino Canyon volunteer naturalist and facilitates advanced training for naturalists and serves as the Sabino Canyon librarian. Previously, she was an Indiana Master Naturalist. Gordon is a member of his…
Howard Cohen, Co-President, SaddleBrooke Nature Club What can we do about the decreasing supply of water in our desert? Catlow Shipek spoke to the SaddleBrooke Nature Club about reversing the loss of water from an area that previously had adequate soil and water and vigorous native plant growth based on rainwater. Catlow Shipek is a…
SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s October speaker was Jim Malusa. Jim is with the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the U of A. He has hiked the mountains around Tucson since he was young. Now, part of his job is to hike those same mountains as part of his research. Every day, we in SaddleBrooke…
Pam Boedeker For the ninth year, Doris Evans was the June speaker for SaddleBrooke Nature Club. Her slide presentations are always the highlight of our year. Doris has been introduced so many times there is little left that hasn’t been said. Basically, Doris has been an educator all of her life, be it with elementary…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club began a four-part series of lectures on our water supply. The first speaker was Bruce Hale. Bruce is a SaddleBrooke resident who has extensive experience with water supply and resources. Bruce has degrees in both biology and chemistry. He has an Associate degree in digital electronics and a Masters in…
Pam Boedeker Do you remember the rumors and doubts about the construction of the animal bridge on Oracle Road in 2014? There was even a cartoon of a dinosaur crossing the bridge. SaddleBrooke Nature Club speaker, Jessica Marino, represented the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection. The Coalition’s mission is to protect the biodiversity of the…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club was fortunate to have Jessica Tierney return to speak with us via Zoom. Jessica is a rare speaker who can translate her scientific knowledge to a language her audience can comprehend. Jessica earned her doctorate from Brown University where she specialized in Paleoclimatology and Organic Geochemistry. She did postdoctoral research at…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s meeting room is closed but that didn’t stop us from having Doris Evans show us her photography of the critters in her yard. She is our favorite speaker and closes out our season every year. This year she came to us on Zoom. Doris has a growing collection of cameras…
Pam Boedeker Looking down the street at the scrawny mesquite and palo verde trees, it’s hard to imagine that magnificent trees exist in our state. SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s speaker has documented some 200 grand trees in Arizona. And he’s asking us to find more! John Orona, is an urban forest specialist with the Arizona Department of…