Since time immemorial, various groups of O’odham resided on and stewarded the land that we now know as Tucson. Within the…
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Program area: River Run Network
Restoring Flow to the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation
Program area: Living Lab
Community Through Conservation
During a recent Welcome Center shift, Co-Executive Director Oscar Lai picked up the phone and spoke to someone who had…
Program area: Community Conservation
Returning to Relationship with Our Rivers
What if we thought about the Colorado River not as a resource—but as a neighbor, friend or relative?For many Indigenous…
Program area: Development
A Cooler Future for Phoenix Youth
Did you know that in 2024 there were 188 days of 100 degree weather in Phoenix? This is compared with a historic decade-long average of 117 from 2010-2019.…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
Turning Rain into Roots
Marisa is Watershed Management Group's Environmental Education Apprentice with a background in teaching creative writing. She’s passionate about sustainability…