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Melissa Crytzer Fry

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Writer, citizen scientist, conservationist, naturalist. Sharing a love of nature & the Sonoran Desert through photos, camera traps. Married to an awesome man.

Southern Arizona
Joined June 2010
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@CrytzerFry
Melissa Crytzer Fry
4 months
Fighting to save H20 & wildlife in AZ’s Sky Islands. On June 30, BLM approved 67 exploratory drill sites for Canadian Faraday Copper. Please help! By Aug. 18, 2025, email state and Safford BLM offices. Find easy copy/paste suggestions here: https://t.co/qG9NMrCdQk At stake:
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@CrytzerFry
Melissa Crytzer Fry
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You guys! Ever since we put up this #saguaro skeleton platform with the quail block (bird seed), I have been wanting THIS to happen. Volume up... and wait for it! PS My thoughts: "young."
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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What an incredible time completing #beaver surveys along the Lower San Pedro River with Watershed Management Group this weekend. THIS - perennial flow and gorgeous #riparian desert habitat - is what is what we WILL lose if copper #mining comes to the San Pedro Valley.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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Gorgeous #coyote on #trailcam. Good to see them looking so healthy.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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It's #Caturday again! Squeezy is a traveling man. Rode up to Phoenix in the RV and took a ride in the truck with me around town.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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It's #FelidFriday, and this #bobcat caught quite the prize. Appears to be a #jackrabbit, given sheer size and rabbit leg length.
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@JMcCannWriter
Jessica McCann
8 days
I’m on a quest for sponsors for the #ArizonaAuthorBookFestival taking place in #downtownPhoenix May 3, 2026. Free community festival celebrates Arizona authors, champions literacy, and supports autism programs. Will you join me? DM or email! #autismacceptance #giveback
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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The Galiuro Mountains are home to one of the most biodiverse areas in the southwest - yes, another Sky Island north of Tucson (threatened by #mining). Caught on #trailcam: a very lean #mountainlion, #javelina family, #coatimundi, and black #vulture.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
7 days
I continue to think the #coyotes are finding a local #mountainlion's cache. This appears to be a #javelina head in its mouth (remember the pair of deer legs last month?) Caught on #cameratrap.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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Someone is making this a habit! 😂 Gray #fox on #cameratrap.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
9 days
Apparently, there was a mule #deer convention in the wash at our place! Caught on #cameratrap.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
10 days
I cannot get enough of these sunrises and sunsets. #SonoranDesert The Galiuro Mountains, just north of Tucson - a Sky Island of the Madrean Archipelago
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
11 days
This, folks. This....
@NoFaradayMine
No Copper Creek Mine
14 days
On this Thanksgiving, we are thankful for all of your support and for politicians that speak the truth. The latter is hard to find. $fdy $cppkf @FaradayCopper @LundinGroup @GlobalExternal @resolutioncu @bhp @RioTinto @azmining #azwater
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
11 days
Happy #Caturday from Squeezy. Nope, can't see you under the box flap at all (when he was smaller, he loved to play with the pens we put on the flaps. Now he reaches out for our feet). Barely fits now!
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
12 days
It's #FelidFriday and we've got a smaller #bobcat coming down the chute this week (vs. last week's larger bob/s at the wash, who has a clear white V on the tip of his tail). #cameratrap
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
13 days
Happy Thanksgiving. House smells great! #baking grandma's homemade clover-leaf roll recipe.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
13 days
Today, I give thanks that this beautiful Arizona Sky Island still stands - the Galiuros - despite @BLMAZ's every move to allow foreign mining to turn it into a 28-square MILES of open pit & block-cave copper mines. It's is still OUR public land, and we will continue to fight.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
14 days
Lots of jacktivity out at the wash #cameratrap. It's a black-tailed #jackrabbit rendezvous! (Wait till very end). Hippy hoppity!
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
15 days
This is utterly fascinating (and, I'm sure, has scientific explanation), but southern AZ is sunny today, except along the San Pedro. The river is covered in glorious clouds. First pic illustrating clouds/fog: that's a red-tailed #hawk upon the #saguaro.
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
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Arizona's #SonoranDesert belongs to THESE animals - NOT foreign #mining exploration companies. Galiuro Mountains. #Ringtail (AZ's state mammal); Coue's #deer; #coati; gilded #flicker
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Melissa Crytzer Fry
16 days
Young #coatimundi caught on #cameratrap. Galiuro Mountains, a rare Sky Island in the #SonoranDesert.
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