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April 16, 2021
Malpai Borderlands Group Annual Science Conference
The links for the Zoom Meeting are below and highlighted. A few minutes before the meeting Place your cursor over "Click here" click and join the Science Conference. It will take you to the Zoom meeting. You will enter the passcode of mbg2021 if prompted.
Friday, April 16-
To join meeting click here and enter passcode: mbg2021 9:45-10:00
Introductions & Overview of MBG Science Projects
Richard Winkler Executive Director, Malpai Borderlands Group
Myles Traphagen Science Coordinator, Malpai Borderlands Group
10:00-10:30 Brandon Bestelmeyer USDA/ARS Jornada Experimental Range, New
Mexico State University (NMSU)
“Landscape change over 25 years in the Malpai Borderlands: are sustainability goals being met?”
10:30-11:00 Emily Burns Sky Island Alliance, Tucson, AZ “Wildlife Species
Richness across the San Rafael Valley”
11:00-11:30 Miguel Villareal US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA “A Recent Sky
Island Fire History."
11:30-12:00 Mirna Manteca Wildlands Network, Cananea, Sonora, Mexico “Road Ecology and conservation in Sonora, Mexico”
Friday, April 23-
To join meeting click here and enter passcode: mbg2021 9:45-10:00
Introductions & Overview of MBG Science Projects
Myles Traphagen Science Coordinator, Malpai Borderlands Group
Richard Winkler Executive Director, Malpai Borderlands Group
10:00-10:30 Shelemia Nyamuryekung’e USDA Jornada Experimental Range, (NMSU) “Precision Ranching”
10:30-11:00 Matthew McIntosh USDA Jornada Experimental Range, NMSU “Sustainable Grazing Management in the Chihuahuan Desert: Traditional and Novel Approaches to Adapt to a Changing Climate”
11:00-11:30 Dan Taylor Bat Conservation International
“Restoring Agave for Migratory Nectivorous Bats in Arizona and New Mexico”
11:30- 12:00 Janet Fox Tucson, AZ
“Orchids in the Borderlands: Rare and cryptic plant species of the MBG Region”
12:00-12:30 Saunders Drukker Texas State University
“Understanding the Acute Effects of Wildfires on Montane Rattlesnake (Crotalus sp.) Natural History in the American Southwest, an Ongoing Project Overview”
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April 17, 2021
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May 5, 2021
Thanks to you know what, not too many community activites scheduled these days.
