Regional Website Resources

Groups and resources in the region

• Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) Project
  This virtual flora and fauna was created to serve as a gateway for the
  environmental research community, as well as the general public, to
  access and contribute to a growing collection of specimen records and
  observations. This database covers the same region as the Wild Sonora website. 
• Western Watershed Project
  To protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation. 
• Center for Biological Diversity
  Locally-based conservation organization.
• Sky Island Alliance
  Environmental organization focused in the Sky Island region.
• AZ Firescape
  Great description of our vegetation communities, and other info about our region, specifically related wildfire. 
• AZ Wilderness Coalition
  Working for more Wilderness in Arizona.
• Rainwater Harvesting
  Support healthy native landscapes, save water, lead a more sustainable life to support a healthy region.
• Watershed Management Group
  Want to live more in harmony with your Sonoran environment? This is your group.
• Mt. Graham Coalition
  Fighting cultural desecration and environmental destruction on Southern Arizona's tallest Sky Island.
• Northern Jaguar Project
  Working to protect remaining Jaguars and important wildlands in eastern Sonora.
• Naturalia
  Mexican based environmental NGO.
• Peace Supplies
  Local alternative printed supplies and service... feral press.
• Sierra Madre Alliance
  Fighting logging in the Sierra Madre, as well as the simultanious eradication of traditional Tarahumara culture.
• N-Gen
  Next Generation of Sonoran Desert Researchers (N-Gen) represents a renewed effort to create a multinational community of investigators across disciplines. N-Gen is about our collective work and implementing the ideas we generate together.
• SierraRios
  Info on rivers and river running in Mexico and Sonora. Well built website with lots of helpful info, pictures, and stories from some of the wildest rivers in the world.
• Go Light Outdoors
  Want to explore NW Mexico by river... connect up with these experienced river runners to explore amazing wild rivers and canyons. 
• Public lands fee program
  More insidious than you think, you should learn more.
• Sky Jacobs
  Photography, art, and biocentrism in the southwest.
• Aaron Flesch
  Natural history and science of Sonoran birds and much more.
• Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
  A good resource for information about the region.
• Cornell Lab - Macaulay Library
  Amazingly complete catalog of species audio recordings.
• Stream Dynamics
  Restoring streams in the region through on-the-ground restoration techniques.
• Tutuaca Mountain School
  Nonprofit on the Rio Tutuaca dedicated to conservation and sustainabilty offering educational programs and involved in restoration efforts.
• Southeastern Arizona Wildflowers (Firefly Forest)
  Great resource for identifying flowers of the region.
• Density gradient maps of native vascular plants (way cooler than it sounds!).
  Maps by family, genus, and a host of other criteria (by county). The biota of North America program. 
• Public Lands ranching is the Waste of the West
  Book detailing the severe, extensive, and often overlooked abuse of the West's public lands.