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Together, we represent thousands of Pima and Santa Cruz County residents who want to see the river corridor protected in perpetuity. The Santa Cruz River Refuge coalition recognizes that the Santa Cruz River has been a storied spiritual and cultural place for the Tohono O’odham and their distinct ancestors, and Pascua Yaqui people from time immemorial. We recognize that the people of the San Xavier District, in particular, have ancestral ties to the flowing Santa Cruz River and the lands around it. The original homeland of the O’odham and their ancestors, including the Hohokam and Early Agricultural People, is located on the river, which they collectively have stewarded for millennia. They continue to access these lands for ongoing cultural and religious practices.
The ecologically and culturally rich Santa Cruz River flows through the heart of Tucson, a fast-growing city of over 1 million people in the greater metropolitan area. After generations of colonization and groundwater overuse, the surface flow stopped running in some areas, with flows all but drying up except during heavy seasonal rains. In 2012, Pima County approved funding to vastly improve the quality of wastewater effluent that was being released into the Santa Cruz River. By upgrading the wastewater treatment facilities—which currently release highly treated wastewater into the Santa Cruz—local leaders, alongside restoration volunteers, created over 25 miles of vibrant habitat that has been foundational to the recovery of native vegetation, wildlife, insects, and migratory bird species.
The Santa Cruz corridor offers abundant recreation opportunities, including birdwatching at Sweetwater Wetlands and cycling and walking along the beloved 137-mile Chuck Huckelberry Loop, a popular paved recreation trail with dozens of access points that runs alongside the Santa Cruz and its major tributaries.
Our vision for an urban national wildlife refuge imagines an archipelago of protected properties along the Santa Cruz River that would offer permanent wildlife habitat and outdoor access. The Tucson land would anchor this “string of pearls,” offering shade, river access, and outdoor education for the neighboring communities. The Santa Cruz River Urban National Wildlife Refuge draws inspiration and lessons from current exemplary restoration work happening along the corridor, including the San Xavier District’s Wa:k Hikdan project.
May 2024
Upcoming Events & Tours
May 2, 6pm, “Borderlands Forum with Atascosa Borderlands”. Atascosa Borderlands is a long-term visual storytelling project by Luke Swenson(Documentary Photographer) and Jack Dash (Naturalist and Writer). Since 2017, they have been working to better understand the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands alongside ecologists, cattle ranchers, humanitarian aid workers, migrants, hunters, ex-border patrol agents, and indigenous community members. This project will ultimately bring together hundreds of original film photographs, oral history interviews, botanical specimens, historical images, and found objects; creating a living archive dedicated to this remote 42-mile section of the US-Mexico border. During this presentation, Luke & Jack will share the photographs and some of the stories they’ve collected so far in this project. Location: BCA Office, 8 Burruel Street, Tubac. Free event - donations welcome. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area.
May 3, 8:30am-2pm, “Humanitarian Aid in the Borderlands: A Tour of the Arivaca community’s response”. We’ll meet at BCA’s office in Tubac at 8:30am and hop in a van for a drive to the community of Arivaca. We’ll visit the humanitarian aid office there and hear a presentation from aid workers. We’ll then head to site of a Humane Borders water tank and witness some of the crosses planted as markers to those who have died while migrating. The tour will conclude with lunch at La Gitana Cantina in Arivaca. Tour fee: $45 members; $55 non-members. Includes van transportation, tour guides and lunch. Location: Meet at the BCA Office, 8 Burruel Street at 8:30am. THIS TOUR IS FULL - THERE IS A WAITLIST. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area.
May 8, 10-11:30am, Borderlands Literature & Film Circle event: “Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment” by Renata Golden. Interview & discussion with the author about her new book which interweaves stories from her own life with stories of the ever evolving systems of the Southwest, particularly the Chiricuhua Mountains in southeast Arizona, and by extension all the borderlands sky islands, riparian areas and desert spaces. Event is on Zoom. Free event - Suggested donation of $10. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area.
Please reach out to your Congressional Representative(s) and ask them to oppose H.R. 2925, the “Mining Regulatory Clarity Act” sometime this week, as it will be voted on next week.
THE MINING REGULATORY CLARITY ACT: THE LARGEST HANDOUT TO THE MINING INDUSTRY SINCE 1872
The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act represents an unprecedented giveaway of America’s cherished public lands to mining corporations, upending and reversing over a hundred years of public land law precedent. Under the bill, anyone—for a nominal fee—gains absolute rights to occupy land in perpetuity, construct massive waste dumps, and build roads and pipelines across public lands to the detriment of all other values. This would preclude all other types of development and use, including renewable energy projects, recreation, and traditional cultural uses.
The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act would undermine the federal government’s longstanding authority to safeguard public lands,threatening the protection of irreplaceable cultural, environmental, and economic resources. That’s because the bill conveys mining claimants with an absolute right to permanently occupy lands. If an alternative use—like an electric transmission line or a renewable energy project—needed to cross “claimed” public lands, mining companies could extract large sums of money from the federal government in exchange for giving up their claim.
Unintended consequences – this bill could easily be weaponized. A person wishing to block a solar or wind farm or transmission project could simply file a claim in the path or the project and would be conveyed an absolute right to block it from moving forward.
Under Section 2(e)(1)(B), mining companies would receive a statutory right to permanently occupy and bury our federal public lands under tons of toxic waste. Further, Section 2(e)1(A) grants mining companies automatic rights-of-way for new pipelines, transmission lines, and roads across public lands—eliminating a central provision of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) that requires mining companies to receive a permit for such uses just like every other industry operating on public lands. Section 2(e)(2) would also eliminate FLPMA’s requirement that the company pay “fair market value” for using public lands for these facilities.
The Mining Regulatory Clarify Act was authored in reaction to recent court decisions that affirmed and enforced longstanding law. According to proponents of this egregious corporate handout, the need from this bill arises from ac our case known as Rosemont, as well as two subsequent federal court rulings, where a company proposed using invalid mining claims to dump enormous quantities of waste generated at the mine site. Their solution was to assert a right to dump water on thousands of acres of public lands, despite any valid mining claims. The problem with that was obvious and courts blocked them: holding an invalid mining claim confers no right to use or occupy the lands covered by the claim unless a valuable mineral is discovered.
This bill would tip the scales away from communities, the environment, and our clean energy future--giving the mining industry the power to dictate how we use our public lands. Instead, Congress should work to balance our nation's clean energy mineral needs with all other public land uses, such as for renewable energy projects, cultural and historical resources, ranching, recreation, water resources, and wildlife.
Let's do our part == contact your legislators by clicking on the link below. Let them know that you OPPOSE the Mining Regulatory Act. Find and contact elected officialsI
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MARIPOSA MEDICAL OFFICE NOW OPEN IN TUBAC https://www.mariposachc.net/mariposa-at-tubac/
The Tubac Health Care Foundation provides support to educational and health and wellness programs in our community, including Wisdom's Sports and Scholars, Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Valley Assistance Services, Mariposa Community Health, The Tubac Community Center, the Tubac Fire Department and generous donations to the Amado Food Bank.
Check out their website for more information about what they do and their grant application process. Link to the Upper Right---
The Tubac Health Care Foundation considers requests from non-profit or publicly supported public service organizations or agencies (e.g. local EMS or Fire Department). We are not able to provide funds directly to individuals.
We fund programs, or portions of programs, designed to serve the people who live and work in the Tubac area.
The Foundation funds programs that improve the mental and physical health of the population in our service area.
Nature • Culture • History
Your Heritage Area Newsletter
✨ SUBMIT YOUR GRANT APPLICATION! 📣
An estimated $200,000 in funding will be allocated to our 2024-2025 grant program. With a deadline of June 2nd, it's time to apply now. For priority projects, refer to the actions outlined in our Management Plan. We encourage all projects to include a public education element to increase heritage awareness and inspire long-term stewardship of the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area. Awards will be announced in August and project timelines run from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. Don't miss out!
Help for Hummers
The Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area hosts nearly 20 hummingbird species throughout the year. While there are some that stay year-round, many hummingbird species arrive in April or May and leave by early October. In Tucson, the newly hatched Southern Arizona Hummingbird Rescue is committed to helping those birds that are orphaned, injured, or sick. They can be reached at (520) 404-9949. Photo by Mark Olsen.
An urban national wildlife refuge designation protects crucial green space, improves and maintains wildlife habitat connectivity, ensures equitable access to the river and surrounding landscape for local communities, and honors the rich cultural and historical connections to the revitalized river. An urban wildlife refuge can protect threatened open space in perpetuity. Urban refuges also improve equitable access to the outdoors for local residents by protecting green spaces that support community health and well-being and foster land stewardship through restoration, recreation and education. In addition, a vital migration corridor and a north–south flyway for hundreds of species of birds and other wildlife would be protected. We’re proud to be included in the coalition of organizations and individuals supporting this community-led conservation along the Santa Cruz River.
Visit the website to learn more and consider signing their letter of support!
Heritage Area Happenings by date
May 1–5: Tucson International Mariachi Conference, times and locations vary in Tucson.
May 6: Fort Lowell Museum’s Fort Lowell Neighborhood Walking Tour, 9:30am-noon at Fort Lowell Park in Tucson. Registration required.
May 6: Birding Canoa Ranch, 7:30-9:30am at Historic Canoa Ranch in Green Valley. Registration required.
May 9: Tohono Chul’s Bee-Friendly: A Guide to Attracting Native Bees, 10-11:30am at 7366 N Paseo Del Norte in Tucson. Registration required.
May 11 and 26: Presidio Museum’s Barrio Viejo Walking Tours, 5:30-7pm at 418 S. Main Ave. in Tucson. Registration required.
May 11: Sonoita by Starlight, 7:30-9:30pm at Sonoita Vineyards in Sonoita.
May 15: Sonoran Institute’s Sonoran Soirée, A Conservation Benefit, 6-10pm, at Playground Bar & Lounge in Tucson. Register online.
May 18: Empire Ranch’s Movie Under the Stars, 6-9pm, at Empire Ranch in Sonoita.
May 18: Mariachi Festival, 9am-6pm, at Patagonia Lake Stake Park in Patagonia.
May 22: Watershed Management Group’s River Run Network Clean Up, 6-7:30-pm, at Santa Cruz River/Irvington Rd. in Tucson. Register online.
Recently retired, ita Badertscher spent more than 30 years working in various capacities for the National Park Service. From Yosemite to Shenandoah, Chiricahua to Saguaro National Park, she ended her tenure as a park service employee as the Chief of Interpretation and Education at Tumacácori National Historical Park. Originally from Ohio but drawn to the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert, she has spent more than half her life here, where her children were born and raised. A past resident of Amado and Tubac, Badertscher now resides in Rio Rico.
Anita recognizes parallels between the work she did as a park ranger to preserve and protect this special region and her role on the board. She sees her board service as being in line with her values and lookforward to bringing the skills she garnered during her professional career to the National Heritage Area, especially in the disciplines of interpretation and public communications
Tubac Community Center 50 BRIDGE RD
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American
Red Cross
Community Blood Drive
Saturday, April 20, 9 AM-2 PM
Please register at 800-RED-CROSS
The Santa Cruz Humane Society is a no kill shelter that provides compassionate care and adoption services for homeless dogs and cats in Nogales, Arizona. Visit us and take home your new family member today!
SHOP and DONATE at our thrift store to help support our mission.
SOSAZ Applauds Gov. Hobbs' Defense of Public Schools
In yesterday’s State of the State, Governor Hobbs made it crystal clear she will continue to defend Arizona’s public schools and work to implement urgently needed reform for the runaway universal ESA voucher program.
We are proud to support her commonsense proposals to add accountability and financial transparency to the snowballing universal ESA voucher program; find a permanent solution to the AEL school spending cap; send a new, strengthened Prop 123 to voters that includes investments in school safety as well as raises for teachers and support staff; and enact proposals to increase student safety.
We must acknowledge that the Governor is operating under a scarcity model created by her predecessor. Because of former Gov. Ducey’s failed policies, Arizona is facing serious economic anguish. Years of shortsighted tax giveaways and plummeting tax revenue caused by Ducey-era tax cuts for the wealthy have led to an estimated $400 million budget shortfall only 5 months into the fiscal year. On top of that, the rapidly rising costs of universal ESA vouchers are projected to reach nearly $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
This is a critical moment for the future of Arizona’s 1 million students. While we know voucher lobbyists will continue to back proposals that aim to discredit, defund, and dismantle public schools, Governor Hobbs has proven we can count on her to veto these deeply unpopular efforts.
We are proud to stand behind the Governor as she fights to protect public education in our great state for the 92% of families choosing their neighborhood public schools.
Read more of the Governor's speech HERE
DONATE Santa Cruz County Community Development Department, 2150 N Congress Dr. Suite 206, Nogales, AZ 85621, or email fdillon@santacruzcountyaz.gov
You can find the entire agenda at this link:
https://www.santacruzcountyaz.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01182024-926
You can find the public notice at this link:
https://www.santacruzcountyaz.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18278/Public-Notice-January-18-2024
Dr. Mary I. Vanis,
President
In May, 2018 I moved to the Barrio. At that time, The Villager was a local newspaper. It was a surprisingly good print publication for a town that boasted only 1000 people, 500 full-year. Shortly after I settled in, The Villager stopped printing. It was sorely missed by everyone. I anticipated someone would pick up the ball but it never happened. The events page was all you ever needed to plan your week. The articles were interesting and I have saved my few copies, as I'm sure others have too. After five plus years, people are still missing it.
My goal for the tubacweekly is simple. I am attempting to bring back a media that has All Things Tubac. I hope you'll help me so that together we can make sure everyone is aware of the interesting events in Tubac and what's happening in our community in the Arts, Nature, as well as our rich history.
Tubac is a charming town, with endearing people. I hope that we will continue to flourish in creativity and good will. There is not much like our tiny village in America, it is a unique place filled with beauty. How lucky we are to live here.
Happy Trails,
Susanna 10-01-2023
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