Hiked the Wild Burro Trail very early this morning and ran into Julio the Gila Monster. Click on the video below to see him moving out!...

Salton Sea-Imperial County, California-2018 Over the last four months there have been at least three studies released regarding the...

Dove Mountain Development 101 A little background about Dove Mountain Development is provided here to help fully understand the...

Hiked the Upper Javelina Trail this morning at 5 AM to beat the heat. The saguaro fruit are beginning to ripen. See photo above that...

Saguaros Enjoying The Scenery Alamo Springs Trail Tortolita Preserve (TP) Natural Resource Survey TA met with Marana Parks & Recreation...

Jim Tripp Moving On Jim Tripp (TA Vice President) and family have decided to move back to the mid-west. Accordingly, Jim has resigned as...

Marana PD has informed TA that the suspects have been apprehended by the US Customs & Border Patrol. Kudos to all our law enforcement...

Good morning. Some of you may have heard and/or seen a helicopter (not the actual chopper left) making passes over the Tortolita...

TA Presentations Tortolita Alliance (TA) made presentations to the Del Webb Dove Mountain HOA (2/11), Dove Mountain Civic Association...

Marana Meltdown Marana Parks & Recreation (MPR) is holding the Marana Meltdown mountain bike time trial event at the Tortolita Preserve...

Some Tortolita Alliance (TA) members might have received a postcard invitation (see invite left) to comment on the Guild Wash-Santa Cruz...

The "Telltale" Saguaro along the top of the Upper Javelina Trail has flower buds this morning. Telltale is among the first Saguaro in...

Tortolita Alliance (TA) Board member David Howe has organized a virtual presentation with Arizona Game & Fish (AG&F) entitled Living With...

We decided to move from La Quinta, CA (Coachella Valley near Palm Springs) to Marana, AZ for a lot of good reasons----cooler desert,...

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. ...

Tortolita Preserve (TP) Field Visit With Marana Officials TA Board members met with Terry Rozema (Marana Town Manager), Jackie Craig...

Thanks to Tucson Clean & Beautiful and Tortolita Alliance (TA) Board Member David Howe for organizing today's Santa Cruz River 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...

The Marana Town Council meets tonight (2/23/21) in a Study Session to discuss the proposed 2022-26 Capital Improvement Program (CIP). TA...

The Desert Museum and TA co-sponsored another successful Bufflegrass Pull event today in the Tortolita's near the Wild Burro Trail. ...