Arizona Wildlife Resource

05/20/2026

It's so tough being in Wildlife conservation right now. Massive development is always been an issue and we're in hyper mode now. Please help advocate for the Wildlife. Put up nesting. Plant a native tree. Put out some native flowers and register nesting sites on our webpage before they get run over and simply help advocate for the animals. Whatever, happens to them eventually happens to us.

05/16/2026

Hopefully this apartment complex does not have a landscaping crew scheduled because their plants are thriving. They're growing the way they're supposed to be growing. They're allowed to touch each other. It's covering up a large majority of the rock. It's creating a cooling effect. It's creating a relaxing effect and I hope I never drive by here and see this place butchered. Thank you town Chandler for showing people how pretty plans could be if they stop trimming them. Allowing plants to grow shaggy helps species like mockingbirds, quails, house, finches, hummingbirds, and the list goes on. All these native songbirds also help with pest management as every single one of them eats bugs.

05/16/2026

Please can we start creating communities with butterfly gardens filled with native plants. Like it would be so beneficial!!!

Y’all know we’re kinda crazy for the genus Asclepias! Our milkweed section currently has 10 regionally native species. Some species will sell out faster than others.
Asclepias species are collectively known as milkweeds (named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged) and have been made famous as larval host for the popular, and threatened monarch butterfly, a species we consider as a “gateway” into wildlife gardening. Milkweeds are almost all, universally, great pollinator plants (for other than the monarch or queen butterfly). There are 207 accepted species of Asclepias distributed broadly across Africa, North America, and South America.

Milkweeds are the larval food plant for the monarch and queen butterflies as well as the milkweed tussock moth, and the flowers are nectar rich, attracting a multitude of nectar-seeking insects, especially tarantula hawks. Aphids are often collected on the tips of the stems, and we recommend leaving them alone—as long as the plant has enough sun and water, it is relatively unaffected by the aphids. What is more, in amongst the aphids are usually eggs of butterflies, newly hatched butterfly larvae, and also larval forms of ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and other beneficial insects. And those beneficial insects are usually eating the aphids. Even if you merely wash the aphids off with a get of water, you also remove all those other bugs, and aphids reproduce quickly, while those beneficial insects take longer to recover.
Asclepias is named for the Greek god of healing Asklepios, referring to the common medicinal use of plants in this genus.
We have species that grow in full sun, some that grow in shade, and some that can take a wide range of exposures. We have wet-growing and dry, desert-growing species.
As of the time of this post we have the following:
A. asperula
A. curassavica
A. angustifolia
A. tuberosa
A. speciosa
A. latifolia
A. linaria
A. subulata
A. tuberosa
A. verticillata

We have more species growing and on the way including A. albicans, A. subverticillata, A. oenotherioides, A. brachystephana, and more…

05/15/2026

Want to help wildlife?

The city of Eloy has been forcing people to remove native vegetation, even though it's the middle of nesting season and this is known to cause a lot of problems

When land clearing is done during nesting season, it kills baby burrowing owls, quail, killdeer, nighthawks, bunnies, ground squirrels, songbirds, butterflies, and so on.

Removing native ditch weeds also increase heat island effect, creates erosion issues, increases toxic dust pollution, and disturbed bare soil invites in non-native weeds like stink net.

So if you like the native plants and wildlife... and you don't want our neighborhood to turn into a toxic dust bowl. Please help me by sharing or commenting on this post so we can raise awareness about native plants and the wildlife connected to it.

This is one of our major wildflowers on the chopping block. It's a native sunflower helps with erosion, helps pollinators, reduces dust pollution and if we were to purchase these at the store, the 1 gallon pots are $15 apiece.

http://southwestdesertflora.com/WebsiteFolders/All_Species/Asteraceae/Isocoma%20tenuisecta,%20Burroweed.html

05/12/2026

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05/08/2026

Not sure why someone feels the need to get so close. Yes a vehicle will crush the burrow. Yes there are signs. Yet... there are still a bunch that have no clue or just don't care.

05/08/2026

What water?

The City of Tucson has formally revoked water access for contractors working on the proposed Project Blue data center after discovering city water was hauled to the construction site for dust control. The city is now demanding water credits as restitution and says it will not provide any city resources for the project.

05/07/2026

Want to help protect native vegitation and build more wildlife friendly communities with us?

Well, we have self reporting tools to watch over nesting and report wildlife electricutions.

We also have a map of licensed rescue facilities and volunteer events you can help with.

Strategic Habitat Enhancements and I have launched a native plant list to help gardeners pick plants more suited for this area vs. just being water wise.

And we will be including a list of native plant nursery's you can check out that may help as well like Spadefoot Nursery

Native plants feed native wildlife - ornamental plants create food deserts and need a lot more maintenance.

We will also be hosting a you pick seed party. You can come to our place and pick some native seeds from my garden before they replant themselves.

Please check out our webpage in our bio for more info.

Thanks friends ❤️🦉❤️

05/06/2026

I think every native gardeners's blood boil when we watch how city municipalities force unnecessary cleanups that caused more damage.

I don't wanna stop my car while going to the grocery store to complain about the complete waste of money and racket this is.

Over the past year I have seen more damage done through trying to clean up these landscapes and it shows the people enforcing them have no clue about the vegetation they're working with.

I've written to the Mayor. I've spoken to multiple city managers, I've put in complaints to their department. I've offered to help.... but It all falls on deaf ears.

It's very frustrating to see money spent saying its to clean up our areas but in reality it's destroying the ecology that is necessary to support it.

This type of land clearing especially during nesting season directly hurts nighthawks, Quail, songbirds, butterflies. It creates erosion issues and it invites invasive species of weeds to take over faster.