Tucson Chapter Member’s Showcase and Holiday Gathering

Jillian Cowles – Chasing Wildflowers

Logan Phillips – Tucson’s Birthplace Open Space Coalition

THURSDAY, December 12, 2024 

Meeting and presentation, 7pm

U of A campus, Environment and Natural Resources Building (ENR2), Room S225

1064 E. Lowell Street, on the U of A Campus, Tucson

Our December meeting will feature the Member’s Showcase.  Two of our esteemed AZNPS members will regale us with presentations about topics in which they have a particular interest.  After the talks, we will have a social gathering, with cider and goodies and the chance to chat with friends.  If you are able, please bring a holiday food treat to share. 

Jillian Cowles will share her amazing photographs of some rare cactus and other plants that she has sought out over the past year.  Jillian is the author of “Amazing Arachnids,” an amazing book published by Princeton University Press about the arachnids (spiders, mites, scorpions, and other cool stuff) of the Southwest.  Her photos and stories are always a delight.

Logan Phillips is a Tucson poet, educator, and community activist who will tell us about the Tucson’s Birthplace Open Space Program (https://tucsonopenspace.org/). This effort, in which he is deeply involved, is focused on restoring the area between A Mountain and the Santa Cruz River, in the area near Mission Garden, into an open space and urban wildlife refuge that will honor the history of the Santa Cruz basin.  

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!