H. James Tripp
Water Woes III-Shortages
This is the third part of the Water Woes Series which describes how the Drought Conservation Plan (DCP) Shortages are implemented. Lake...
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Tortolita Alliance
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Living With Arizona Wildlife Event Summary Report
Living With Arizona Wildlife-Zoom Presentation-April 8, 2020 On Thursday, April 8th, Arizona Game & Fish (AG&F) Urban Wildlife...
Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
Cocci Chronicles-Part III-Symptoms & Diagnosis (Maybe)
This is the third Part of a series about Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis). It is presented in a form that provides the essentials. More...
Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Guild Wash EA
Some Tortolita Alliance (TA) members might have received a postcard invitation (see invite left) to comment on the Guild Wash-Santa Cruz...
Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Cocci Chronicles Part II-Airborne Fungus
This is the second Part of a series about Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis). It is presented in a form that provides the essentials. ...
Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
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...
Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 10, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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