Mark L. Johnson
Hope In The Tortolitas!
The "Telltale" Saguaro along the top of the Upper Javelina Trail has flower buds this morning. Telltale is among the first Saguaro in...
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Mark L. Johnson
Apr 10, 20212 min read
Bird Safe Buildings Program
Join the Bird Safe Buildings Program & Become a Citizen Scientist! In one year, 365 million to 1 billion birds die from window collisions...
Mark L. Johnson
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Fantastic Fund-Raiser---Thanks!
Tortolita Alliance (TA) Spring 2021 Fund-Raiser was fantastic. We raised $6,255 ($5,185 on-line donations and $1,070 cash/checks). TA...
Mark L. Johnson
Apr 4, 20211 min read
Cocci Chronicles-Part I
Arthroconidia Form of Coccidioides In The Soil Arizona is the epicenter for a soil fungus called Coccidioides (Cocci) and the associated...
Mark L. Johnson
Apr 1, 20211 min read
Living With Arizona Wildlife Event
Tortolita Alliance (TA) Board member David Howe has organized a virtual presentation with Arizona Game & Fish (AG&F) entitled Living With...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 31, 20213 min read
Tax Tales
We decided to move from La Quinta, CA (Coachella Valley near Palm Springs) to Marana, AZ for a lot of good reasons----cooler desert,...
H. James Tripp
Mar 30, 20211 min read
Dry Tiers! Five Months To Next Water Shortage?
The US Bureau of Reclamation predicts a Lake Mead level of 1071.59 ft in January 2022, which would trigger a Tier 1 water shortage for...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 28, 20211 min read
Alamo Spring-less
Went to the U of A Baseball game yesterday and stopped by Lindys On Fourth on the way home for a gigantic specialty hamburger and fries. ...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 25, 20214 min read
Desert Mistletoe
Tortolita Alliance reached out to a local expert to learn more about desert mistletoe. Kelsey Yule received her PhD in 2018 from the...
Mark Johnson & Jim Tripp
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Water Woes II-Sustainable not Assured
Did you read the recent water articles in the Arizona Daily Star by Tony Davis? Lets take a look: Article 1: Climate change could reduce...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 18, 20212 min read
TA Tidbits #19-Current Events
Tortolita Preserve (TP) Field Visit With Marana Officials TA Board members met with Terry Rozema (Marana Town Manager), Jackie Craig...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Dust Bowl
Tortolita Alliance (TA) attended the Local Drought Impact Group (LDIG) Meeting via Microsoft Team today (March 10, 2021). LDIG is a...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 7, 20211 min read
UnLittered
Thanks to Tucson Clean & Beautiful and Tortolita Alliance (TA) Board Member David Howe for organizing today's Santa Cruz River Trash...
Mark L. Johnson
Mar 1, 20211 min read
2021 TA Fund-Raiser
In 2020, the Tortolita Alliance (TA) was quite busy despite the pandemic. The TA 2020 Annual Report shows that many strategic plan items...
Mark L. Johnson
Feb 28, 20211 min read
TA Tidbits #18-Owl-Water-Fire-Grass & Trash
Pima County Pygmy Owl Monitoring Pima County Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 3 (2/12/21) provides a nice description and update of the County's...
Mark L. Johnson
Feb 23, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Marana CIP
The Marana Town Council meets tonight (2/23/21) in a Study Session to discuss the proposed 2022-26 Capital Improvement Program (CIP). TA...
Mark L. Johnson
Feb 21, 20211 min read
UnBuffled
The Desert Museum and TA co-sponsored another successful Bufflegrass Pull event today in the Tortolita's near the Wild Burro Trail. ...
Mark L. Johnson
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Water Woes I
Lake Mead-41% Full White Paper 6-Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green Rivers casts doubt on the...
Mark L. Johnson
Feb 4, 20213 min read
TA Tidbits #17-Hot Local News & Events
Sun-Moon-Earth Upper Javelina Trail TA Meets With Marana Town Manager TA Board members Mark Johnson, Dave Barker and Jim Tripp met via...
Mark L. Johnson
Jan 31, 20211 min read
Santa Cruz River Cleanup
Tucson Clean & Beautiful and other agencies/groups are sponsoring a Santa Cruz River Cleanup on March 7. The Tortolita Alliance is...
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