UA Cochise Cooperative Extension Water Wise

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Join Water Wise and our friends from for this great program on the importance of water in cave ecosystems and the formation of cave structures! This presentation will be held on Friday October 11th at 6:00 PM in the Public Meeting Room of Groth Hall on the University of Arizona Sierra Vista Campus located at 1140 Colombo Avenue.

If you can't make this program mark Saturday November 9th on your calendar as Kartchner Caverns State Park will be celebrating 50 years of Discovery at the park in Benson, AZ that Day!

Green stormwater infrastructure is a nature based solution that catches, cleans, and infiltrates excess water while providing ecosystem services including supporting vegetation, providing shade, carbon storage, creating wildlife habitat, and much more!

Our good friends and colleagues at the are hosting a great webinar on Green Stormwater Infrastructure and highlighting the work that has recently been done in Superior, AZ! Mark Tuesday September 24th at 12 PM on your calendar for this program! Follow the link provided or visit the WRRC for additional information and registration. https://www.wrrc.arizona.edu/events/wrrc-water-webinar-using-green-stormwater-infrastructure-projects-develop-partnerships

If you want to learn more about other local projects we suggest checking out the amazing work that program has done! https://climateaction.tucsonaz.gov/pages/gsi

Water Wise Youth is now scheduling FREE hands-on, standards-based, and fun lessons for K-8 students throughout Cochise County. Tag or share with a K-8 educator in Cochise County who is passionate about our precious water resources!

Did you get your monsoon predictions in for August with the University of Arizona's monsoon fantasy through the Institute of Resilience? If you missed last month you can still get your predictions in for the month of September if you submit them prior to August 31st at 11:59 PM!

We had a great turn out for our San Pedro River Hummingbird Migration Program yesterday. A big thanks to the community for showing up to support, and of course of speaker, Tom Wood from Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory. Up next Water Wise will be at the STEAMFEST in Willcox on August 24th. Maybe we will see you there!

Water Wise is proud to present our next program, "San Pedro River Hummingbird Migration"! August is Hummingbird Month in the City of Sierra Vista and we want you to come learn and celebrate with us on August 18th.

Our speaker, Tom Wood is co-founder and director of Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory and has been studying hummingbirds along the San Pedro River for over 30 years. If you can't make this talk you should try to visit Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory at one of their educational hummingbird banding days at the San Pedro House or attend one of the many hummingbird related events happening throughout the city of Sierra Vista this month. Check the complete list with the City of Sierra Vista by following this link https://www.sierravistaaz.gov/our-city/hummingbird-month/-fbclid-IwY2xjawEeOsBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQYZ7SklM9W8eH3nvBRMukLOZufBYxKLRxYJzGnRnsqG4XeR1k4dNFfKeQ_aem_zjxFVVaHSBq2S6g3r01ZiA

Last Month Water Wise hosted a riparian tree ID workshop in Sierra Vista. It went so nice we are doing it twice! This time it will be in Bisbee on Sunday July 28th. We hope to see you there.

Over the weekend Water Wise hosted a Riparian Tree ID Workshop. We had a great time and learned a lot along the way! Scheduled next we have Flora Fronteriza: Native Plant Restoration in the Arizona/Sonora Borderlands on July 7th. We hope you are as excited to learn about native plants as we are!

Water Wise loves native plants! Join us on July 7th 2024 at 12:30 PM in Bisbee to hear about native plants in restoration from our good friends ! Did you know prior to this program are conducting a plant delivery to the Courtyard in Old Bisbee? You can place your order with them online at www.borderlandsplants.org. Be sure to include, "Bisbee 7/7" in the notes.

The University of Arizona's Irrigation Efficiency Program has already conserved 36,418 acre-feet of water thus far! Join the Water Resources Research Center's webinar on Thursday, June 27th 2024 from 12:00 - 1:15 PM to learn more!

Monsoon is a favorite time of year for many desert dwellers. The humidity and moisture quell the worst of the summer heat and on a good year the landscape is transformed with the rains. What does monsoon 2024 have in store? Any thoughts or predictions? Join the University of Arizona's Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Game!

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