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(NEW) Avian Field ID & Monitoring Techniques Workshop - Montane Focus - Workshop introduction and onboarding April 2026 Avian Workshop - PC: Caitlin MacMurtrie https://www.desert-shield.co/events/monarch-surveying-and-habitat-identication-workshop-chggy monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68895db1caecae0822a8d14b/e6830bc6-98e3-4837-b15f-d684172c3bc8/unsplash-image-5lHRUPTFTdo.jpg Workshops & Trainings - Pollinator Surveying and Habitat Identification Workshop - Las Vegas, NV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68895db1caecae0822a8d14b/359b56be-fc36-4547-b88d-9ccf7ff5e256/1769991202360.jpg Workshops & Trainings - Pollinator Surveying and Habitat Identification Workshop - Las Vegas, NV - Monarch Joint Venture / Instructor This course will be co-hosted by the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV). 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USFWS has identified common raven predation as one of the threats to desert tortoise recovery, especially for hatchling and juvenile tortoises. Human-provided food, water, nesting sites, and roosting sites can support higher raven numbers in desert areas. That is why WEAP training often includes strict rules about trash, food waste, open water, and site cleanliness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68895db1caecae0822a8d14b/65b13a6d-fcfa-4741-aded-ffbb69459ee2/unsplash-image-qCaPhVrl7m4.jpg Blog - What Makes a Good WEAP Training? - Other engaging facts for protected species or WEAP requirements Creosote & Blading: That scraggly creosote bush you'd never look twice at can be one of the oldest living things on Earth. The famous "King Clone" ring in the Mojave is about 11,700 years old, older than farming, older than the pyramids by thousands of years. Creosote grows so slowly that David Attenborough filmed King Clone in 1982, came back in 2022, and it had grown less than one inch in 40 years. You cannot replace that with a seedling during your project’s restoration! So, PLEASE, minimize grading to the extent necessary! Mojave yuccaand blading: is the same story. A single plant takes about 100 years just to mature, and yucca “clumps” are often 700-12,000 years old! One blade of a bulldozer and centuries of life is destroyed. That is why agencies are trying to replant them. They are the “old growth” of the desert. One of the few species adapted to survive out here. When someone says "it's just a bush," the honest answer is that bush may predate the United States by a thousand years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68895db1caecae0822a8d14b/81f88652-33bb-4d1a-b94d-0c54b3d32c1e/IMG_2128.jpg Blog - What Makes a Good WEAP Training? Desert Pavement and cryptobiotic soils works like a lid. Desert pavement is a tight mosaic of interlocked rocks that took thousands to hundreds of thousands of years to form. Biocrust can take decades or hundreds of. Years to reform. Under that rock lid sits a layer of fine, powdery silt, or "moon dust." The pavement and “bio-crust” is the only thing keeping wind from lifting it. Scrape the lid off and you release silt that took ages to settle. That's the whole reason "stay on approved roads and limit your footprint" is an air quality rule, not just a wildlife rule. Every square yard you don't disturb is dust that stays on the ground instead of in our air and in someone's lungs. The Gila monster is the only venomous lizard native to the United States, and a hormone in its saliva became the diabetes drug Byetta, the same GLP-1 science behind today's famous weight loss meds. Proof we can't know which desert species holds the next medicine before it’s potentially lost. Their survival depends on rain, as Gila monsters can only cary about 80 days worth of water in their body, so drought and development is a big reason for it’s decline. They spend 95% of their time underground and have almost 100% mortality rate when relocated because they are so dependent on their chosen habitat for survival and shelter A kangaroo Rat and Desert Plants: A kangaroo rat can live its entire life without ever drinking a drop of water, making its own moisture from the dry seeds it eats, and it replants the desert's next generation of plants as it buries seeds. Eastern Joshua Tree: They just recently discovered the eastern Joshua tree can only be pollinated by only one creature on Earth, a single tiny eastern yucca moth, and the moth can't reproduce without the tree either. If we loose the moth, we loose the Joshua tree. (USGS) The desert kit fox is the smallest fox in North America, house cat sized with oversized ears, never has to drink water since it pulls moisture from its prey, and is a state protected species that dens in the ground. 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