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Project: Building Treehouses about Sonoran Desert Organisms
Teacher Resource
learner section
Building Treehouses about Sonoran Desert Organisms
Lisa Schwartz, Kathryn Orzech, and Laurie Cale
Information on the Internet
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Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan
This page provides a lot of information on Sonoran desert conservation and has a link to "species in Pima County" used by students to choose organisms for research for their treehouse webpages.
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Sky Island Alliance
Another conservation website dedicated to the preservation and restoration of native biological diversity in the sky islands of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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The Nature Conservancy - Arizona
This site provides links to activites and events sponsored by the Nature Conservancy in Arizona.
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
A site that provides information and links (and if all else fails, email contact with experts) about Sonoran desert organisms.
About This Page
Lisa Schwartz
University of Arizona
Kathryn Orzech
University of Arizona
Laurie Cale
Catalina Foothills High School
Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to Lisa Schwartz at
learning@tolweb.org
, Kathryn Orzech at
kmcelvee@email.arizona.edu
, and Laurie Cale at
cubs123@cox.net
Page copyright © 2005 Lisa Schwartz,
Kathryn Orzech
, and
Laurie Cale
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