Melissa Crytzer Fry
@CrytzerFry
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apparently, there was a mule #deer convention in the wash at our place! Caught on #cameratrap.
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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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This, folks. This....
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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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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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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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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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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Young #coatimundi caught on #cameratrap. Galiuro Mountains, a rare Sky Island in the #SonoranDesert.
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