Mark L. Johnson
TA Alert! Marana Town Council-Call For Candidates
Marana 2022 Town Council Election-Call For Candidates The Marana Town Council will have four openings for the August 2022 election with...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 30, 20212 min read
TA Tidbits # 26 I-11, Land & Water
Tortolita Preserve (8/28/21)-Four Pots Of Gold Interstate 11 (I-11) Update Thanks to all the Tortolita Alliance (TA) members that wrote...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 28, 20213 min read
Water Woes IX-Water Study Session Report Part B
Water Is The Sustenance Of Life In Part A we reported that Marana Water has 2,804 acre-feet (AF) of water remaining in its Designated...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 26, 20212 min read
Water Woes VIII-Water Study Session Report Part A
Hope you had the opportunity to attend or watch (video stream) the Water Study Session on Tuesday. Jing Luo, Marana's new Water...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 22, 20211 min read
Water & Flower Power
Alamo Springs Trail-Chest High Grass Hiked the Wild Burro & Alamo Springs Trail this morning. The Wild Burro Wash was flowing strong...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 19, 20212 min read
TA Alert! Water Study Session
Marana Water Study Session Marana will be holding a Water Study Session in the Town Council Chambers on Tuesday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. ...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Aye-R-Land
Upper Javelina Trail Looking East Hiked the Upper Javelina Trail on Sunday and it looks like Ireland up there--emerald green! Below is a...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Lush-Us
Tortolita Preserve Wash After Summer Monsoonal Rains August 2021 On Sunday, I hiked the Tortolita Preserve (TP) with three TA members who...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 13, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Interstate 11 Opposition To West Option
Tortolita Alliance (TA) received word yesterday that the comment period for the Interstate 11 (I-11) Final Environmental Impact Statement...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 11, 20213 min read
Marana Housing Chat
TA attended the Marana Town Council Housing Study Session (8/10/21). Click on the Button to View the Study Session PowerPoint. The...
Mark L. Johnson
Aug 6, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Study Up
Sunset-West Hyannisport, MA I took this photo a few days ago a short distance from my boyhood home on Cape Cod, MA. This is a beautiful...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 29, 20212 min read
Water Woes VII-Water Poker
Thanks to the many Tortolita Alliance (TA) members who wrote letters and attended last night's Marana Planning Commission meeting...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 27, 20212 min read
TA Alert! Road Noise! I-11
The Tortolita Alliance (TA) is collaborating with the Coalition For Sonoran Desert Protection (CSDP) and other environmental groups in...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Water Woes VI-ARIDIFICATION
Aridification is the process whereby a region becomes increasingly drier (arid) over a long period of time. Climate change and the...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 21, 20211 min read
TA Alert! More Rooftops & H2O?
Camino De Oeste 34 Marana Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 28 at 6:30 in the Town Council Chambers...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 18, 20211 min read
Green Acres
Last week there were two nice rain events in the Tortolita Preserve (TP) with 0.7 inch on Wednesday and 0.3 inch on Friday for a total of...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 12, 20212 min read
Water Woes V-Tidal Wave
There has been a tidal wave of significant news in the Arizona water world. Here is the skinny. ADWR Tells Pinal County No More...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 11, 20212 min read
TA Tidbits #25-TA Logo-Patches, Website Improvements & Something Called Rain
TA Logo & Patches We are happy to announce that the beautiful Tortolita Alliance (TA) logo has received official Trade Mark (TM) status...
Mark L. Johnson
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Swimming In Taxes
Marana is planning to raise the sales tax to fund a proposed Community Center and Aquatic Center. TA has remained neutral regarding the...
Mark L. Johnson
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Alert! Tortolita Preserve Now Open
Good Afternoon. Marana Park & Recreation just contacted the Tortolita Alliance (TA) to let us know that the Arizona State Land...
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