You are invited to join the Tucson Broadband for a BioBlitz on Sunday March 23, 2025 at Barrel Canyon, located on the east side of the Santa Rita Mountains, and close to the imperiled areas by the Copper World mine.

Goals:

• Identify any rare, threatened, or endangered species that are adjacent to Copper World mine
• Create community awareness for people who care about our Sky Islands being destroyed
• Generate a groundswell of opposition to future gambits by Hudbay (Canadian mining company)
• Engender delight in this glorious part of our State!

An iNaturalist project has been created that you can join today. The boundaries are directly over an aquifer that is sustaining riparian trees and other plants.  Please join this project here.

The road to the BioBlitz site is dirt, but is navigable by SUVs and trucks. Cars with a higher clearance should be fine as well. We’ve created a carpool signup sheet which you can find here.

Once we hear from you, we will send out additional details about parking and the meetup location.

Click here to register for this special event.