Hello from Phoenix Arizona!  The last month has involved a fair amount of riparian habitat and wildlife monitoring, including Multiple Indicator Monitoring and Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Surveys.  Even with the temperature reaching 119 degrees at times, I am still so grateful for constant sunshine after living in the East for a number of years.  Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I leave you with a few 🙂

Smiles,

Emily M.

Wildlife Biological Technician for BLM Phoenix

The little white dot in the picture is our Jeep 🙂

I love the Saguaro in the foreground and the winding mountain trail in the background

Complete with waders, boots, backpack, and MIMs frame

Posing under an enormous Sycamore while conducting wet-dry mapping along an Agua Fria River tributary