Our Winter 2023 Mountain Lines magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about Big Cats in the Preserve, Living Laboratories and Inquiry-based Learning, What is Your Trail Etiquette IQ?, Return of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve Field Guide, and so much more.
Our Fall 2022 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about The Expedition Days Program Expands, Surveying the Preserve for Eagles and Other Raptors, Connecting to the Preserve Through Its Accessible Trails, Inspiring the Next Generation of Conservationists, and so much more.
Our Summer 2022 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about hiking safely in the summer heat, our new Bajada Explorers program, the Preserve's cutest ambassadors, celebrating Jane Rau's 100th birthday, and so much more.
Our Spring 2022 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about identifying wildflowers, protecting the desert tortoise, getting started with mountain biking, getting along with our wild neighbors, education and partnering for the future, and so much more.
Our Winter 2022 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about Camino Campana Grand Opening, Climbing Rocks in the McDowells, Monsoons Get Things Hopping, Butterflies, Butterflies, and More Butterflies, and so much more.
Our Fall 2021 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about AZH2O, Water and the Human History of the McDowell Mountains, New Pima Dynamite Trailhead, Results of a Trail Restoration Study, Revising the Conservancy's Approach to Education, and so much more.
Our Summer 2021 Mountain Lines, magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, is available now. Check out our web edition to learn about Water and the Human History of the McDowells, Being Fire Wise, Empowering Future Change Makers, and so much more.
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By Marianne Moore, Ph.D., Arizona State University assistant professor Originally published in the Fall 2017 Edition of Mountain Lines Around Valentine’s Day 2007, a phone call from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to my Ph.D. advisor at Boston University, Dr. Tom Kunz, alerted us to unusual bat mortality occurring in New York
