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Plant Cut Sheets
Sonoran Desert MVPs (.pdf) Our pick for essential habitat plants that provide the mid-story, thorny, scrub layer that so many birds and other wildlife depend on. This mid-story layer is almost always missing from our landscaped yards.
Articles
Last Call for the Wild? (.pdf) by Jennifer Patton and Ben Wilder, Tucson Lifestyle, April 2020
A Fine Feathered Festival (.pdf) by Jennifer Patton, photos by Ben Wilder, Tucson Lifestyle, April 2020
Lizard Tales (.pdf) by Jennifer Patton, Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden, August 2018
Where the Wild Things Grow (.pdf), Wilder Landscape Architects Profile, Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden, August 2017
Make Your Home a Refuge for Native Tucson Birds (.pdf), Article about Tucson's first Audubon certified Habitat at Home Yard - WLA Headquarters, Arizona Daily Star, June 2, 2016
Knowledge Base
Pool Hardscape Temperature Comparisons (.pdf)
Books and Publications
The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. Buchman and Gary Paul Nabhan
Copyright 1996
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being by Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright 2009
Native birds are in trouble in Tucson. Is there hope? Turner, W. R., Vermilion Flycatcher, March 2001
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press
Copyright 2000
Win-Win Ecology: How Earth’s Species can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise,
Michael L. Rosenzweig, Oxford University Press, NY April 2003
IDENTIFICATION
Butterflies, moths and skippers
Arizona Naturalists - http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/arthropoda/lepidoptera.html
Bird species in Tucson
Tucson Audubon Society - http://tucsonaudubon.org/go-birding/get-started-with-birding/tucson-meet-your-birds/
Arizona Naturalists - http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/vertibrata/aves_desert.html
Complete List of Arizona Birds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Arizona
Where are the Birds? Use the Species Density Map of the Tucson Bird Count - http://www.tucsonbirds.org/data-entry/
Reptiles and amphibians within the Tucson area
Tucson Herpetological Society - https://tucsonherpsociety.org/the-inhabitants/
Reptile & amphibian species in Arizona
https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_reptile.php
Organizations
The Arizona Native Plant Society
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Migratory Pollinators Program
https://www.desertmuseum.org/pollination/
Make Way for Monarchs: a Milkweed-Butterfly Recovery Alliance
http://makewayformonarchs.org/
The Pollinator Partnership
Sonoran Permaculture Guild
http://www.sonoranpermaculture.org/
Southwest Monarch Study
Tucson Audubon Society
Tucson Bird Count
Plant Lists and Landscape Design
Desert Survivors Native Plant Nursery has a variety of plant lists including Butterfly Larval and Moth Larval Host Plants, Butterfly Nectar Plants, and Desert Tortoise Plants.
http://www.desertsurvivors.org/plant-lists.html