Mike Foster is the producer of the San Pedro River National Conservation Area (SPRNCA) Natural and Cultural History series. The series consists of seven DVDs and numerous podcasts. Foster is also the producer of the Friends of the San Pedro River iTunesU channel on the Arizona Department of Education IDEAL site which consists of nearly seventy videos about the North American desert environments. Mike Foster produced the interpretive bilingual video for the El Pinacate Gran Desierto Altar Biosphere Reserve (Sonora, Mexico) that is now shown daily in their new visitor center. Mike’s videos are shown on Channel 12 in Sierra Vista, AZ and on Channel 20 in Tucson.

His work can also be seen on the websites for the following organizations:

City of Sierra Vista (AZ)

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (AZ)

Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park (AZ)

Guadalupe Mountains National Park (TX)

Work includes cooperation with:

Coronado National Monument (AZ)

Arizona Game and Fish Department

Imperial National Wildlife Refuge

Sierra Alamos y Rio Cuchujaqui Reserve (Sonora, Mexico)

Southern Sierra Research Center

Hands Across the Border Foundation

The whole SPRNCA Series may be purchased at the San Pedro House Bookstore located at: 1900 E. Hwy 90, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635.

Recent engagements:

Exemplary presenter at the Microcomputers in Education Conference at ASU (March 2010, 2011 for educational video efforts)

Regular presenter at the Southwest Wings Birding Festival at Cochise College, held every August in Sierra Vista, AZ

Foster is soon to retire from the Sierra Vista Public School district where he has been a electronic, computer and audiovisual technician for 30 years. He then plans to devote all of his time to video work and is now available for contract.