Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
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The Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge is a nonprofit group of citizens dedicated to supporting the National Wildlife Refuge System and the Buenos Aires NWR by volunteering to assist the Refuge with its mission through conservation projects, scientific research studies, and educational programs.

"Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals."
--Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

BANWR Visitor Center
BANWR Visitor Center
  		Baboquivari Mtns.
Baboquivari Mtns. in background
frog pen in foreground 		Friends Quail Release
Friends Quail Release
November 2003 		Brown Canyon Education Center
Brown Canyon
Education Center

NOTES and INFO

Friends of BANWR
Annual Meeting
at the Refuge
Saturday November 15, 2008

We will begin at noon with a pot luck lunch. Everyone is welcome to participate! Just bring a dish to pass.

After the potluck we hope that Mike Hawks, the new manager, will be able to fill us in on the current situation at the Refuge and his plans for the future.

We will then have a brief meeting which consists only of electing new board members. Only members may vote, but if you are not a member we will be happy to sign you up!

Then at about 1:45 pm we will be privileged to experience a program by Emil McCain of the Humboldt State University Jaguar Team. Emil has been taking night wildlife photos in the Altar Valley, including parts of Brown Canyon and Melissa Owen's ranch. Bob Farrell has seen his photos and says they are spectacular photos. At present, wildlife can still cross the border where the pedestrian barrier stops west of Sasabe. (Disclaimer: no jaguars were observed in these photos, but just about every other wild critter in the area.) Emil will be available afterwards to answer questions about the photos and the project.

Membership Renewal

It is also time to note that memberships are up for renewal again. Your membership fees permit us to publish our newsletter Seeds and to support numerous activities at the Refuge for which there is no federal funding. We have provided meals for guests, volunteer recognition dinners and student awards, workbooks and other materials for the student workshop at the Cienega, donation box maintenance at Cienega, printing and mailing of Seeds, honoraria for speakers, workshop expenses and more.

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Original Art by Bonnie Swarbrick for Sale
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Read the Refuges at Risk report! (www.defenders.org/habitat/refuges)

Join the Friends' "Action Alert" list!! Contact your Congressmen!!

USFWS updated their BANWR website! Check it out!

The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Will No Longer Receive Endangered Species Act Protection (See Endangered)



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Membership in the Friends of Buenos Aires NWR includes a periodic publication called Seeds and Educational Workshop discounts. For New Membership, Annual Dues and Information about the Friends contact:

Friends of Buenos Aires NWR
P.O. Box 794
Green Valley, Arizona 85622

Membership levels:

___Student/Senior($18)         ___Individual($25)         ___Family($30)

___Bobwhite Sponsor($100)         ___Grey Hawk($500)         ___Jaguar($1,000)

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Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge is a sweeping landscape of semidesert grassland flanked by mountains. Here, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to restore the grasslands and wildlife native to the Altar Valley. A captive breeding program focuses on reintroducing the endangered Masked Bobwhite quail. Prescribed burns and other habitat programs aim to restore the grasslands to their pre-settlement condition for the benefit of the bobwhite, for the reintroduction of pronghorns, and for other native species.

To learn more about the Buenos Aires NWR, click HERE!

Take a photo journey with Mary Scott to three areas of the refuge:
Headquarters,  Arivaca Creek, and  Arivaca Cienega.

To learn more about America's National Wildlife Refuge System, click HERE!

To learn more about the National Wildlife Refuge Association, click HERE!

To learn more about the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, click HERE!

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Everyone has a name,
but they are all called Friends,
because they share our yard.

Ken Buchanan, This House Is Made of Mud




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Baboquivari Peak

"West of Tucson, in the Papago country, are several isolated ranges, of which the highest is Baboquivara peak, standing like a giant sentinel, guarding the weird fastnesses of the Papagueria."
--Patrick Hamilton, 1881, Resources of Arizona, p.15, UA eBook

"Looking back to the north, we could see the United States, where the sacred peak of the Tohono O'odham, Baboquivari, held the horizon, taking no notice of any human lines drawn through the rocks and sand below."
--Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey, The Road to Mexico, 1997, p.119

"We stood above the haze. In all directions its striations obscured the valleys. Distant mountain ranges buckled and then dissolved into the smog. The Catalinas were washed out, but Baboquivari Peak managed to drive its thumb above the flat, white horizon."
--Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire, 2000, p.106

To look down over top of Baboquivari Peak CLICK HERE!


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If you have any questions or comments please contact:   webmaster@friendsofbanwr.org

Neither the members of the Friends of Buenos Aires NWR (The Friends), the Board of Directors of The Friends (The Directors) nor the author of this web site (The Author) makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed herewithin or by link.

This web site has links to federal agencies, to private organizations and to commercial companies. Where these links are provided, they are done so only as a convenience for users who wish to browse other web sites with related information. These links are not comprehensive and The Friends, The Directors and The Author neither endorses the information content, presentation, or accuracy, nor makes any warranty, express or implied, to its authenticity or accuracy.

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