Wednesday, April 8, 10-11:30am: Jack Dash and Luke Takata, “The Atascosa Borderlands: A Living Archive of this Unique Arizona-Sonora Region”

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Join us for our monthly Borderlands Literature and Film Circle (BLFC) on Zoom. This is a free online event, $10 suggested donation.

Atascosa Borderlands is a long-term visual storytelling project by Luke Takata (Documentary Photographer) and Jack Dash (Naturalist and Writer), who have collected plants, taken photos and recorded oral histories in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands since 2017. They have worked alongside ecologists, cattle ranchers, humanitarian aid workers, migrants, hunters, ex-Border Patrol agents, and Indigenous community members to create an archive of, and to better understand this remote 42-mile section of the US-Mexico border known as the Atascosa Borderlands.

The Atascosa Highlands are an area of incredible biological diversity located within one of the most ecologically rich regions on the planet. While these mountains have been inhabited for thousands of years, the last few centuries of human activity have had a profound effect on this stretch of the US-Mexico border, making it essential to document the ecology of the region now.

To get the most out of our session, please explore their website, Atascosa Borderlands, https://www.atascosaborderlands.com/, which serves as the primary resource for our interview.

Their work offers a rare, nuanced look at how human activity and conservation efforts shape one of the most ecologically rich regions on the planet.

To view more upcoming BLFC events and the BLFC archive, visit https://bordercommunityalliance.org/blfc.