Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition
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Trail leading into Rio Bosque Wetlands Park Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. by Rick LoBello If you have never been to Rio Bosque Wetlands Park now is a great time before we start experiencing the unforgivable hot days of summer. I went to the park last …
16 years ago, there was a standoff at Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in the lower valley of El Paso when long time advocates like Judy Ackerman (center) and Sal Quintanilla (right) joined residents across the city in fighting to save the wildlife corridor between the border wall and the Rio Grande. Bill Addington (left). Photo …
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Saving Water by Robert D. Vines PE, C.P.M. Note – Robert is on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition, one of the Zoo’s most important education partners. El Paso receives sixty percent of its water from two large aquifers. An extensive analysis by Dr. Alex Mayer at UTEP indicates that …
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by Jacob R. Croft Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. Hello, I am Jacob Croft, a scientist trained in biology working with the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition. From 2021 to 2022 I worked on a project to bring back the black-tailed prairie dog to the El Paso region. …
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By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. The fun part about writing about all the different plants that there are growing at the El Paso Zoo is how every time I do so I get to know many new forms of life that …
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Green Gulch, Chisos Mountains by Betty Alex Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. The Sky Island concept originated in an Arizona Highways article in the early 1940s when the writer referred to the Chiricahua Mountains in far Southeastern Arizona as mountain islands in a desert sea. Over …
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Golden Eagles are rarely seen in El Paso’s Franklin Mountains. They are dependent on lowland habitat surrounding the mountain peaks where they hunt for prey species including jackrabbits and desert cottontails. By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. How we develop or not develop …
By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. Here in El Paso a new group is forming to help come up with a plan to create a binational conservation corridor along the US Mexico border. Ever since the first sections of the border wall …
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By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. As the audience awaits the rising curtain on the big bat flight show, vociferous Cave Swallows fly overhead in search of a final evening meal. These dive-bombing acrobats must know that they will be forced out …
Burrowing Owl next to a drainage culvert. Owls often displaced by development projects will nest in culverts only to lose their eggs when it rains. Zoo staff came to the rescue and built a artificial burrow that the owls soon moved into. Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our …
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