Against the orange glare of high-pressure sodium lights, a small projector cast an image of a northern jaguar against the steel wall strung with razor wire that runs along West International Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz.
Environmental History Conference Offers Some Clues.
By Margaret Regan
SMACK IN THE middle of Phoenix, hemmed in by the city s
blacktop and fast-food joints, is a surprising riparian oasis. Called Tres R the confluence of the Salt River and two lesser-known
rivers. Wood ibises and bobcats have been sighted there,
says Diana Hadley, an environmental historian at the Arizona State
Museum. It s like a jungle; it s just beautiful. Nothing, in fact, like Tucson s own parched and punished Santa
Cruz, the defunct waterway west of downtown that some local optimists
are trying to revive. But water-deprived Tucsonans have a chance
to learn how to pull off successful water projects like Tres Ríos
Eric and Amy Watterson Flygare didn’t necessarily want to gain any notoriety by tromping through the snow in a field off U.S. Highway 89 near Franklin Basin on Saturday.