Regional Website Resources

Groups and resources in the region

• Madrean Discovery Expeditions
  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 organization dedicated to conservation and protecting biological diversity.
• 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. 
• 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 simultaneous 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, river running, and river conservation in Mexico and worldwide. Website with info, pictures, and stories from some of the wildest rivers in the world.
• Go Light Outdoors
  Want to explore northwest 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.