Pam Boedeker The December meeting of SaddleBrooke Nature Club began with Jim Cloer telling the group about volunteer opportunities with the Catalina State Park Nature Program. Possibilities are endless from photography to geology and plant study. The speaker at the meeting was Jean Groen from Apache Junction. Jean has a lifelong love of cooking and…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s first speaker of the year was Sonia Gasho, owner of the L Lazy E Ranch in Pearce, Arizona. Mother of three and wife of a Homeland Security employee, Sonia was not what we would call a stereotypical rancher! With no additional employees, this family of five raises Balancer cattle on…
Pam Boedeker The December meeting of SaddleBrooke Nature Club began with Jim Cloer telling the group about volunteer opportunities with the Catalina State Park Nature Program. Possibilities are endless from photography to geology and plant study. The speaker at the meeting was Jean Groen from Apache Junction. Jean has a lifelong love of cooking and…
Pam Boedeker The Coyote Room was filled to capacity for the November meeting of SaddleBrooke Nature Club. New residents and long-time residents were all interested in avoiding or treating those poisonous bites, stings and punctures that occur here in our Sonoran Desert. The speaker, Liz Barta, RN, has been with the University of Arizona College…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club members and other community volunteers are a big draw at Catalina State Park most Saturdays at the wildlife exhibit. The exhibit area has grown to include four tents, featured critters from our area, animal skins and a wide variety of hands-on activities. Volunteers enjoy interacting with kids and adults as…
Pamela Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s first meeting of the season on October 13 introduced Fred Terry, known as Oracle’s Singing Beekeeper. Fred has been raising bees since the 1970s. His knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for the business are impressively extensive. Fred has researched and aided beekeepers in Central and South America. He has given presentations…
SaddleBrooke Thanksgiving Grandkids’ Days 2014 will be held November 28 and 29 The SaddleBrooke Ceramics Club is hosting a ceramics event where kids can paint a ceramic object of their choosing. The event will be held on Friday, November 28 in the Ceramics Club’s room (Quartz Room) in the HOA 2 Arts and Craft Complex.…
Pam Boedeker Members of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club Program Committee came back from their summer vacations anxious to get the fall events underway. The first meeting of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club will be October 13. The Nature Club meets monthly the second Monday (starting in October) at 4:00 p.m. in the HOA 1 Clubhouse downstairs…
Pam Boedeker On April 12 the SaddleBrooke Nature Club was treated to a presentation on Crested (Cristated) Saguaro. Presenter and founder of The Crested Saguaro Society, Bob Cardell, kept the audience informed and entertained with his slideshow of Crested Saguaro. Bob took his first photograph of a Crested Saguaro in 2005. Nine years later he…