Friends of the Huachuca Mountains

08/18/2026

It's time for another Kids Day at Carr House! Please join us on Saturday, August 22, at at 9 am. We're making leaf people!!

Many different trees can be found around Carr House. And they all have different leaves! Let's use the leaves we find around Carr House to make leaf people!! If you have interesting leaves from around your house, bring them too!

Kids Day participants must be accompanied by an adult. The program will be held at Carr House, 1011 E. Carr Canyon Road in Hereford. Carr House can be found on Google Maps. The program is free and open to all.

Photo credit Ron Stewart.

Photo Credit Ron Stewart

08/15/2026

The Carr Canyon waterfall is flowing strong thanks to the heavy rain over the last few days. But the waterfall can also be treacheous. Cochise County Sheriff's Office - Mark J. Dannels Sheriff Search and Rescue team was called out yesterday to rescue a teenager who had slipped on wet rocks and received serious injuries. The rescue was difficult but ultimately successful. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Exc52JpBR/
Be careful when getting a closer look at the falls, or you may unexpectly need a scary ride being hoisted up to a helicopter!

08/12/2026

Please join the Friends of the Huachuca Mountains on Sunday, August 16, at 1:30 pm for a presentation by Alex La Pierre on Ethnobotany in the Sonoran Desert. Do you know what ethnobotany is? According Wikipedia, ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe. Many native peoples also use plants in ceremonial or spiritual rituals. For thousands of years the Indigenous peoples of the Sonoran Desert-such as the Tohono O’odham, Akimel and Seri- have relied on the land’s plants for food, medicine, tools, and ceremonies. Learn how desert plants have shaped daily life, survival, and cultural traditions. The program will be held at Carr House, 1011 E. Carr Canyon Road in Hereford. Carr House can be found on Google Maps. The program is free and open to all.

08/12/2026

Everyone, we had to change the date for the Northern Jaguar Project. This Sunday, August 16, will be a presentation on Ethnobotany in the Sonoran Desert. The Northern Jaguar program will be held on Sunday, September 20, 1:30 pm at Carr House.

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08/10/2026

Please join the Friends of the Huachuca Mountains on Sunday, August 16, at 1:30 pm for a presentation by Alex La Pierre on Ethnobotany in the Sonoran Desert. Do you know what ethnobotany is? According Wikipedia, Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe. Many native peoples also use plants in ceremonial or spiritual rituals. For thousands of years the Indigenous peoples of the Sonoran Desert, such as the Tohono O’odham, Akimel and Seri, have relied on the land’s plants for food, medicine, tools, and ceremonies. Learn how desert plants have shaped daily life, survival, and cultural traditions. The program will be held at Carr House, 1011 E. Carr Canyon Road in Hereford. Carr House can be found on Google Maps. The program is free and open to all.

07/31/2026

Please join us on Sunday, August 2, for a program about Apaches in the US military. Apache Scouts were elite Native American trackers recruited by the US army, primarily between 1866 and 1886 to fight resisting Apache bands in the Southwest. This program will be presented by Bernd Brandt.

07/20/2026

It’s time for another Kids Day at Carr House! Please join us for this program on Saturday, July 25, at 9 am. This time we’ll be learning about the water cycle.

Did you know that the water you drink today is the exact same water the dinosaurs drank millions of years ago? Because it is a continuous cycle, the total amount of water on Earth never changes—it just keeps traveling around and around. How does water move around and around and around? Join us and find out!! Kids Day participants must be accompanied by a parent.

Carr House is located at 1011 E. Carr Canyon Road in Hereford. It can be located on Google Maps.

Thanks to the Sierra Vista Herald for this nice graphic!

07/11/2026

Please join us on Sunday, July 19, 1:30 p.m. at Carr House for a fascinating program presented by author Jan Cleere. For more than ten years, Jan has written about the women who influenced the growth and development of Arizona in her column “Western Women” that appears monthly in the Arizona Daily Star newspaper. She has compiled these columns into her latest book, 100 Western Women: the Bold, Brave, Gutsy Women of Arizona’s Past. Come and hear Jan talk about the amazing women who helped shape Arizona.
Pictured are John and Ila Healey, who lived in the meadow below Carr House from 1936 until 1972. Ila was Carr Canyon's own gutsy woman, who once caught a live mountain lion and packed it back to the ranch tied behind her saddle. History doesn't record her horse's reaction to having a live mountain lion on his back.

Carr House is located at 1011 E. Carr Canyon Road. The location can be found on Google Maps.

07/07/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the presenter for the bat program on July 5 was unable to attend.

The program has been rescheduled for October 11, 1:30 pm.

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07/07/2026

A Shared Vision: Protecting and Sustaining the Baseflows of the Upper San Pedro River

On Saturday, July 18th, at 1 pm at the Rothery Atria, 3305 E. Fry Blvd.

Come hear Holly Richter, PhD, describe current and past initiatives to preserve the aquifer in the Upper San Pedro River Valley. She will discuss recharge initiatives, the ongoing program to measure surface flow that she initiated in 1999, and where we go from here.
The talk, about an hour long, will be followed by a question and answer session wth Holly.

This talk is being sponsored by the Friends of the San Pedro River and the Friends of the Huachuca Mountains.