By Charlotte Herdliska Open Burning & Fire Pits Open outdoor fires of vegetative waste or household waste including garbage are prohibited without an open burn permit issued by Pima...
Category - Outdoors
They’ll See You Before You See Them
By Alisha Brewer If you are one of the few people to have spotted a mountain lion, consider yourself lucky! I know some people...
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AZ Adventures Outdoors: Sabino Canyon Crawler
By Rob Samuelsen For thousands of years, people have flocked to Sabino Canyon to use and enjoy the water because water is the...
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Highways & Byways for June 2021
By Tom Howard Houghton/I-10 InterchangeCrews have completed the switch of all the on and off ramps. Work continues the bridge...
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Looking Up – Tucson Mountain Ranges
By Rob Hallberg The Tucson area mountains are spectacular and very few US cities can boast they are “surrounded” by them. You can...
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4Hope Camp Trail
By Rob Samuelson Water is the magical force of life. Its cohesion, universal solvency, physical states (gas, liquid, and solid), and hot and cold expansion properties are unlike any other...
Science of H2O in the Desert
Part 2 By K. Nepsa Last month, I explained how using topological clues in the surrounding rocks and landscape can be helpful to find water in the desert. Using the natural landscape...
Join Your Local Astronomy Club
By David Levy By a long shot, the best way to get into and enjoy astronomy is to become affiliated with your local astronomy club. Not only do you get access to a ton of knowledge...
Recreate Responsibly!
By Article Author Saguaro National Park has joined a coalition of municipalities, federal agencies and outdoor organizations across Southern Arizona urging anyone enjoying public lands...
In The Garden
By Elizabeth Warburton-Smith Planting made simple August’s RitoWrap flavor of the month is “Balsamic-Basil” and is filled with grilled chicken, lots of colorful, crunchy veggies...
Vacation in Vail
By Article Author We get around 4 – 5 calls each week from people wanting to know about our town. How is COVID affecting our businesses? Are our restaurants open? Are face...
Along Came a Spider
By Alisa Brewer The itsy-bitsy spider…strike that. Here in Tucson we know that some of our spiders, particularly our tarantulas, are not so itsy bitsy. Just...
Fire!!!
By Rob Samuelsen Back in the day of cave man and cave woman, the world changed the day that Neanderthal discovered that brontosaurus steak tasted better cooked than raw! Mankind has...
Bear Bagging
By Rob Samuelsen Black bears live in our Arizona mountains. I’ve also tracked them in Cienega Creek and occasionally they forage for food and water in our neighborhoods as they did a...