Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club has again benefitted from the incredible speakers, research and resources about our desert environment at the University of Arizona. Our speaker at the November meeting was Dr. Don Falk. He is on the faculty at the University of Arizona teaching a class on Watershed Management and Ecohydrology. His research areas…
Jo Ann Waddell At the first meeting of the year, a filled-to-capacity room of SaddleBrooke Nature Club members and guests heard archaeologist Dr. William Doelle present a program titled Exploring Communities of the Distant Past. Dr. Doelle, founder of Archaeology Southwest in Tucson, used Power Point screens to illustrate the millennial history of the people…
Back for her fourth appearance at the SaddleBrooke Nature Club, Doris Evans presented The Saguaro Story; the life history of the saguaro and its role in our environment with an emphasis on birds. Doris is an annual favorite at SaddleBrooke Nature Club. She speaks to a standing-room-only crowd. Her previous topics have been The Roadrunner…
Pam Boedeker and JoAnn Waddell Holly Richter, the Arizona Water Projects Director for the Arizona Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, provided an overview of Colorado River Basin water issues to the SaddleBrooke Nature Club on March 10. The watershed of the Colorado River encompasses essentially the entire state of Arizona, including large tributary streams like…
JoAnn Waddell On March 16, thirty-five members of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club boarded the Dolly Steamboat on Canyon Lake. Canyon Lake is one of four reservoirs created by dams on the Salt River. It is located on The Apache Trail behind the Superstition Mountains. The weather was perfect for the hour and a half nature…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club welcomed back speaker Liz Barta. Liz is with the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. She educates the public about poisons and drugs and where help can be found. The Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center started in the 1950s with hundreds of index cards accumulated as people called in…
The SaddleBrooke Nature Club president, Ron Andrea, is the father-in-law of the Veterinarian at the Phoenix Zoo. She arranged a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo and hospital for 24 members of the Nature Club. Can you imagine how one would go about doing surgery on a turtle with a bladder stone?
Pam Boedeker Newly elected President Ron Andrea called the January meeting of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club to order. After a short discussion of membership and upcoming events, Carole Chase introduced the speaker. Richard Gibson is Pinal County Extension Director and Statewide Area Agent, Sustainable Agriculture. He works with producers of both large and small farm…
Pam Boedeker Julie Strom, Pima County Natural Resources Program Director, was the guest speaker at the SaddleBrooke Nature Club December meeting. Her topic was Living with Urban Wildlife. Julie began her discussion defining wildlife as being anything living in our area from the largest mammals to the smallest insects. They benefit us in many ways.…
Pam Boedeker Twenty-four members of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club ventured up to the Four Corners region to spend five days with the Hopis. The trip was organized by Road Scholar in conjunction with Northern Arizona University. Ray Coin, a Hopi tribe member, was our group leader and star of the program. Ray and Ted Danson…