This presentation will be filled with colorful photos and step-by-step information on how to make sustainable design choices that benefit the health and beauty of your garden, reduce water, fertilizer, and pesticide use, and give you more time to enjoy your garden throughout the year!  There will be a tour of Emily’s nearby home garden immediately following the presentation. 2-8-2025 Emily Bishton

Join the Friends of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge for a presentation onvenomous creatures of the Sonoran Desert. Wildlife biologist and award-winningphotographer Mike Cardwell will teach us how to identify dangerously venomousreptiles and arthropods in our area, how to avoid being bitten and stung by them, andhow to apply the appropriate first aid if…

Twelve Sierra Club members and 28 volunteers who own Four Wheel Campers came to help on a project at Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. They converted 2.2 miles of barbed wire fence into wildlife friendly fence along State Road 286. This is an area that AZ Game and Fish knew was being used by pronghorn…

On January 2nd Buenos Aires NWR hosted its 37th Christmas Bird Count, celebrating bird life on the refuge since 1987! Every year the National Audubon Society sponsorsthis bird census nationwide.  It is the longest running avian database in the world, providing valuable data on bird population status and trends.The goal is for participants to count…

A sold-out crowd of 65 attended our first ever-fundraising event on January 21st in Arivaca.  At the newly remodeled Dance Hall, a Friends banner and balloons welcomed attendees, and indoors the hall was festively decorated with draped tables and centerpieces.  Background music added to the ambience, coupled with a continuous display of beautiful images of…

Can you believe it’s been eight years since we first cleaned beautiful Highway 286 from one end to the other — ALL THE WAY TO THE BORDER.   As far as anyone knows ATWTTB is the only Adopt-a-Highway project to pick up trash on an entire highway.  And once again on Saturday 28 January 2023 you’ll have a chance to…