Pima Wash - A Link to the Mountains
Pima Wash with Wildfire Sediment #1
Charcoal and ash eroded from burn scars remind us that Tucson's big washes are pathways to the mountains. Near this spot in the Quail Canyon Section of Pima Wash, just east of Oracle Road and south of Rudasill, a developer wants to crowd 120 2-story houses and 7 3-story apartment buildings onto the floodplain on the canyon bottom. Then the animals that wander up and down this vital corridor in search of food, mates, nesting sites, and water will be funneled into a narrower path than they already have.
Truck on Rudasill Road, Pima Wash Crossing
Charcoal and ash eroded from burn scars remind us that Tucson's big washes are pathways to the mountains. Near this spot in the Quail Canyon Section of Pima Wash, just east of Oracle Road and south of Rudasill, a developer wants to crowd 120 2-story houses and 7 3-story apartment buildings onto the floodplain on the canyon bottom. Then the animals that wander up and down this vital corridor in search of food, mates, nesting sites, and water will be funneled into a narrower path than they already have.
Asphalt Chunk With Yellow Line #2
A piece of Rudasill Road that broke off during a recent monsoon flood, as I found it in an arm of Pima Wash. It's a powerful flow that tears up a road. Just downstream in Quail Canyon, a developer wants permission to maintain all that flow forever against the west side of the floodplain, and get the zoning changed from the current allowance of 1.2 houses per acre in order to crowd 120 2-story houses and 7 3-story apartment buildings onto the canyon bottom. Wildlife using this major corridor between the Mountains and the Rillito River would then be funneled into a slimmer path than they already have.
