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To Friends Of
Cave Creek Canyon
Silver Peak in December
Eastern side of the Chiricahua Mountains [Kate Fackelman]
Every year there is a
Christmas Bird count both in the Chiricahua Mountains and also in the Peloncillo Mountains.
This year the Chiricahua count was on New Years day with a tentative total of 132 species seen. [The Peloncillo's count was on January 3 and has no reported results yet.]
New Year's day weather was cold, wet and foggy/cloudy. This is Peg Abbott counting birds on the mountain.
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Three Different Looks At The Same View
Which do You Like?
[Gary Miller]
[Karin McQuillan]
[Sarah Thomson]
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Cave Creek Canyon
Forest Service Visitor Center
With the support of volunteers and Ron Kaczor, Friends of Cave Creek Canyon and the Forest Service have arranged to have the Forest Service Visitor Center opened most weekends.
We are planning on having the Center open at least 3 days/week through all of 2016.
Are you interested in volunteering at least one or more days [9 am - 4 pm] per month in 2016? If so please contact Reed Peters at
520-558-1045 or
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Living in the Chiricahuas
Willow Tank is place of Special Interest to FOCCC
We are attempting to rejuvenate this great water spot for birds, with the assistance of the Rivers family. Very recently 2 unusual species of birds were seen there. A Brown Pelican and a female Rusty Cowbird.
[By David Rudin]
[By Debb Johnson]
I was a little too close -
Susan Mittelstadt
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Exciting News from The Cave Creek Canyon's
"Outdoor Classroom"
By Reed Peters, President of FOCCC
The Friends Of Cave Creek Canyon group sponsored the Animas 3rd and
4
th graders in the Canyon a few weeks ago, as a test to see if our ideas about hosting schoolchildren would work. It was very successful!!
Ray Brooks, Shane Burchfield, and Bill Cavaliere educated the children using a sun telescope, invertebrates, and native peoples' artifacts, respectively, and Elaine Moisan, board member Keith Thomson, and I did nature walks. Mitch Webster from the Portal Store and Café provided delicious lunches, and then Peter and Mary Sue Waser and Bob Downs (Don Wadsworth's son-in-law) joined us as we took the chil
dren on walks at Vista Point and South Fork.
The children, after leaving the canyon, were welcomed for free at the Chiricahua Desert Museum. Bob and Sheri had arranged for the children to have guided tours of the exhibits, and they had a wonderful time.
With the children from Animas, home-school children, a number of parents and teachers, there were about 45 participants!!! Please forgive me if I've inadvertently left someone's name out.
We want to build on this experience with the Animas school, and bring children here from Douglas, Lordsburg, San Simon, Apache, and perhaps Willcox, our nearest schools. We're planning a meeting mid-January with interested members of the community to determine volunteer and teaching possibilities, get more ideas for topics (Wynne Brown and I already have a list of 40 or 50 topics we think our neighbors could teach!), etc.
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Friends Of Cave Creek Canyon
PO Box 16126
Portal, Arizona 85632 Visit Our Website |
Thanks to our "Sustainer's Circle" members
for their generous support:
Bob and Bettina Arrigoni, Nancy and Thomas Denney, Bud and Kate Fackelman, Mary George, Paul Hirt and Linda Jakse, Pi Irwin, Leuthold Family Foundation, Barbara Lounsbery, Patrick McNamara, Barb and Pete Miller, Richard and Patricia Parran, Tom Roseman and Paula Baldwin, Sarah and Keith Thomson, Mike and Cecil Williams and Bob and Sherry Zoellick.
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Please support our Business Members who have given generously to Friends Of Cave Creek Canyon. Without their assistance, we would be hard pressed to accomplish our goals. Click on their names to check out their websites.
Sky Island Rolfing Wynne Brown LLC Chiricahua Gallery Everett Jones Realestate (Helen Snyder) Pi Irwin & Zsombor Zoltan Ed Newbold Wildlife Artist Magic Brush Mercury Websites Rodeo Tavern Portal Peak Lodge & Cafe The George Walker House Painted Pony Resort Quailway Cottage Business Memberships start at just $50.00! |
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