By Perrin Milliken, of Bowdoin College RRCS Spring 2021 Sky Island Borderlands program Our semester so far has been characterized by many short trips away from Ruby. We’ve been to the east, towards the border city of Nogales where we…
By Bethany Holland, of Ithaca College. We continued our boarder wildlife vegetation surveys and camera checks in the Patagonia Mountains, and sometimes we’d find fun surprises inside and outside the cameras. Within the bear box of one camera, two giant…
by Wren Garrison, of University of Vermont Sky Island Borderlands Student Program Spring 2021 – WEEK 1 From the first moment I stepped foot in the abandoned old mining town of Ruby, my home for the next three months, I…
By Lucca Sterrer of University of Vermont Walking through the rich forests of Southern Patagonia, it is not uncommon to be approached by one or a few of these brightly colored, curious little birds. Thorn-tailed Rayaditos (Aphrastura spinicauda) are…
By Anna Bosco of Oberlin College When I think of Patagonia, one of the first images that comes to mind is that of vast, hilly expanses covered in neneo bushes. Neneo (Mulinum spinosum), a medium-sized cushion plant, dominates the arid…