Two residents of the West Branch in downtown Tucson overlooking a refugia pond. The Trust has been involved in an ongoing restoration project there for the last three years.

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River Focus of Students' Project
ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Justyn Dillingham; Issue date: 6.14.06 Section: Heat Wave
Tucson has changed in the last 70 years. A 1930s photograph of the Santa
Cruz River's West Branch, provided by the Arizona Historical Society,
shows a lush, rolling land of green fields, cactus, a flowing river and
few signs of civilization in the Kachina Gallery as part of a special
exhibit called "Reviving the West Branch.

West Side Story Unfolding Sadly
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Opinion by Sam Negri; Published: 06.18.2006
It's Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. A long shadow covers the eastern slope of "A" Mountain, a cone-shaped hill a mile west of Downtown Tucson. I'm sitting on a stone wall talking to a man named Joe, who says he lives in Sells.