WMG organized a River Restoration Practitioners workshop in February that filled up quickly with 30 participants representing 15 different non-profits and…
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Program area: Living Lab
What Makes a Micro-Climate?
How we design our landscapes has a big impact on the temperature of our spaces. Choose a few of these cool down strategies to create your own micro-climate.…
Program area: Community Conservation
Advancing Shade Equity Through Education
Like many other resources, shade is a privilege. Underserved neighborhoods often have fewer trees and vegetation, meaning less shade and hotter streets.…
Program area: Development
New Leadership Structure at Watershed Advances 50-year River Restoration Vision
Watershed Management Group’s (Watershed) board of directors is pleased to announce a search for a Co-Executive Director.…
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New Leadership Structure at Watershed Advances 50-year River Restoration Vision
Watershed Management Group’s (Watershed) board of directors is pleased to announce a search for a Co-Executive Director.…
Protect Our Water Future, What You Can Do About Project Blue
Despite the City of Tucson’s clear rejection of Project Blue, the developer, Beale, is continuing to move the project forward in other ways…
Advancing Shade Equity Through Education
Like many other resources, shade is a privilege. Underserved neighborhoods often have fewer trees and vegetation, meaning less shade and hotter streets.…
What Makes a Micro-Climate?
How we design our landscapes has a big impact on the temperature of our spaces. Choose a few of these cool down strategies to create your own micro-climate.…
Be the Beaver
WMG organized a River Restoration Practitioners workshop in February that filled up quickly with 30 participants representing 15 different non-profits and…
Rewild: Let Nature Plant the Trees
Have you ever noticed little trees or plants sprouting in your yard? Well, that’s a tree sprouting on its own, from a seed of a nearby tree or a seed moved…
Pima County’s Plan to Add Multiple Data Centers is Not Compatible with Our Region’s Water Resilience
This article has been updated on July 13 to reflect updated stats and information We, like many of you, try our best to make choices that contribute to a…
Protecting our Rivers, Aquifers, and Forests
Take a minute to remember back to the summer of 2020. It’s a summer many will remember for a long time, in the height of the COVID pandemic. And for those…
Tackling Urban Heat Discrimination, One Rain Garden At a Time
The Amphi neighborhood is one of the hottest areas of Tucson. This historically underserved midtown neighborhood has a lack of mature vegetation, creating an…
The Story of the Tanque Verde Bosque
Have you ever sat under a grandmother tree? A grandmother tree is a large, ancient, and significant tree, and you’ll know one when you see it. There’s a…
The Fall 2024 Binational Beaver Results Are In!
We have completed our fourth and most extensive annual bi-national beaver survey on the San Pedro River! Previously, we had only surveyed sections of the upper…
Communicating Drought
At our staff meeting in mid December, I announced our rainwater tanks were almost dry. We’d been operating on rainwater all year long at our Living Lab,…