Madison Thomas joined KGUN 9 in July of 2023 as a multimedia journalist. She graduated from Arizona State University in May of 2023 with a degree in journalism and mass communication, a minor in political science and certificate in cross-sector leadership.
MARANA, Ariz. — Arizona-based nonprofit Wild at Heart has been relocating burrowing owl s to Martin Farm in Marana for the past eight years, with the goal of creating a safe haven for them.
Greg Clark is the nonprofit’s Burrowing Owl Habitat Coordinator and has been working with burrowing owls for more than two decades.However, according to a report from Stanford University, their numbers have declined by 33% from 1956 to 2016, but Clark is determined to help change that. “So what we’re trying to do is figure out how to come up with a program and strategy," Clark said."So that eventually burrowing owls can live anywhere where there’s open space and there’s enough food for them to make a living.”“So Wild at Heart goes in there before the site is bladed and we get any burrowing owls that are living underground at that site out of trouble and into the care facility,” the bird enthusiast said.
The nonprofit has done this for the several hundred owls that have been relocated to the site, but it may not be their forever home. “They may not stay where we put them,” Clark said. “We can’t control that part, but the part about them going back where there are houses and freeways or warehouses – they don’t do that. They find someplace to live where it’s safe and there’s food.”Madison Thomas joined KGUN 9 in July of 2023 as a multimedia journalist. She graduated from Arizona State University in May of 2023 with a degree in journalism and mass communication. She has lived in Arizona her entire life and grew up in Douglas.
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