Eleven public schools will be brighter and more energy efficient, thanks to new LED lighting from a TEP program designed to help schools save electricity.
Keeping birds of prey safe from hazardous utility equipment requires ongoing efforts in creativity, innovation and stealth.
TEP recently erected a pole equipped only with an artificial nesting box in the Green Valley area. Its only purpose is to provide a safer home for raptors who had built their own nest atop an energized pole about 40 feet away.
Our volunteers recently built six tents that helped a dozen owls acclimate to their new homes on a farmland plot near Marana.