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Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Saving Species

Join the Desert Museum for a delightful day trip to Southeastern Arizona's desert grasslands! These grasslands and surrounding agricultural areas are dotted with artificial lakes, ponds, and mudflats providing habitat for winter birds, including at least twelve species of raptors and numerous waterfowl (ducks and geese). Thousands of Sandhill cranes migrate from as far away as Alaska to spend the winter near Willcox. Join us for a spectacular day of discovery as we explore the Willcox area–one of the region's birding hot spots. We will meet at Park Place Mall and bring a sack lunch. Very little walking is required. Transportation included.

What to Expect: Travel to Willcox playa with stops en route to observe birds and their behaviors. Maximum traveling elevation is 4,200 feet, sometimes on dirt roads. Program will operate rain or shine.

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A live storytelling event presented by Odyssey Storytelling in partnership with the University of Arizona’s Arizona Institute for Resilience and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

The Sonoran Desert is changing, and so must we. As invasive grasses spread and wildfire dangers intensify, scientists, land stewards, and community members are working together to restore balance and resilience to the place we call home.

Community storytellers will share personal journeys of discovery, collaboration, and care for our fragile desert ecosystem. Through science and story, we’ll explore what it means to live, work, and thrive in this landscape—and how we can protect it for generations to come.

Join us for an afternoon that bridges art and science, sparking new connections and igniting hope for a more resilient Sonoran Desert.

Storytellers:
Amy Juan - San Xavier Coop Farm & UA Indigenous Resilience Center
Frankie Foley - Saguaro National Park, Buffelgrass Program
David Yetman - UA Southwest Center/Journal, Social scientist
Jesús Garcia –Cross-border Sonoran Desert Ethnobotanist
Sonya Norman – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Public Programs Coordinator

John Goraj - National Forest Foundation - will perform a song!
Are you a member of the pack at the Desert Museum? Members receive $5.00 off Odyssey Storytelling ticket prices! Simply login as a member here to receive your discount. Ticket sales support the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

This event is part of the Arizona Institute for Resilience project on “Science, Art, and Ecology of Sonoran Desert Fires."

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Join the Desert Museum for an incredible 5 day excursion across the border. Our voyage of discovery includes the Seri Museum in Nuevo Bahía Kino, a visit to the Prescott College Research Station, a panga ride to the mangroves of Isla Tiburón, birding in the estuary of Laguna de la Cruz, a walk in a cardón forest, and of course, meetings with the Seri people themselves with a very special opportunity to participate in the Indigenous Language Day Festival. Our guide, retired ASDM cultural conservationist Jesús García, enthusiastically shares the culture of this desert people as well as the natural and geological history of the Central Gulf Coast subdivision of the Sonoran Desert. Our adventure also includes time on the beach of Kino Bay with its intensely blue water, as well as daily helpings of fresh seafood and opportunities to support the Seri with purchases of their handcrafted goods.

Note: You will need a valid passport book to take this trip. Your passport book must be valid for at least 6 months after our travel dates.

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Join the Desert Museum on an unforgettable trip through Baja California, packed with lessons in Ecology, Geology, Birding, Whale Watching, Cowboys and Ethnobotany! Led by the incomparable Jesús García and geologist/raconteur, Fred Nials, we travel by motorcoach down the entire length of the Peninsula, traversing desert chaparral, a fertile valley of grape and olive orchards to the captivating Cataviña desert with its forests of boojum, elephant trees and cardón. At Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, one of the few places in the world with up-close Grey Whale watching opportunities, three days of off-the-grid “glamping” await. Surrounded by a lush date palm oasis, our stay in San Ignacío includes a day trip to see pictographs of remote Baja. Our time in Loreto Bay includes snorkeling with tropical marine life at Isla Coronado. Experience the charming mining communities and the artists’ haven of Todos Santos as we travel to San José del Cabo, and the famous Los Arcos rock formation at the southern tip of Baja. Our return is by air.

Note: You will need a valid passport book to take this trip. Your passport book must be valid for at least 6 months after our travel dates.

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Junior Girl Scouts pre-register for this special event through the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. The event includes a live animal presentation, dinner and breakfast, and an evening of fun in and around the Packrat Playhouse.

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special hike off grounds at Cienega Creek Nature Preserve.

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Who Dung It?

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Who Dung It?

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Saguaro Harvest

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Nocturnal Toxins

Coati Kids Club member families enjoy a special event with animal encounters, grounds exploration, and crafts. Today's theme: Flower Power - Pollinator Party