Frontera is a partner with Insights Science Discovery who was awarded a NOAA Planet Stewards grant from NOAA Education for the 2023/24 academic year. The El Paso Youth Stewardship Program aims to empower students in the Border Region to address environmental issues within their community. Working with teachers and students for Loretto Academy, the program addresses habitat conservation/restoration with a two-prong approach: designing and creating a native pollinator habitat (gardens) on their school campus with the guidance of local experts and developing environmental agency by engaging in meaningful and practical habitat restoration at Resler Canyon Nature Preserve. Both of these efforts will help support the diminishing desert habitats and will ultimately have a positive impact on the wildlife that depend on these natural spaces.

The Frontera Land Alliance continues to collect data on water quality, air temperature, and particulate matter.

The data being collected will be analyzed in partnership with UTEP. The data will assist with future landscape changes on open natural spaces.

See the most recent data by downloading the following links:

Humidity: Climate Change El Paso Texas

Temperature: Temperature at sites

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Insights Science Discovery and Frontera Land Alliance are working together to engage communities through Environmental Education. Together we are working to improve environmental literacy and community connection to the outdoors and nature through discovery-based learning among the youth of El Paso, Texas.

Through immersive, hands-on field trips coupled with stewardship service projects, and an overnight camping trip, we strive to build a strong environmentally conscious future for the border region.