EXPLORER The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson
Nov. 17, 2021
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HoliDaze 2021
Oct. 7, 2021
Holiday events and gifts to look for across town this season | Page 7
Preserve Vistoso nearing goal to purchase defunct golf course for conservation
INSIDE
Our Town
Cranksgiving | Page 4
Happenings
Music, art, theatre and classes around town | Page 22
Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media Photo by the Arizona Game and Fish Department
Bighorn sheep population stable after fire, monsoon Jeff Gardner
Sports & Rec
Basketball season is underway | Page 23
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t was bighorn against Bighorn last summer when a wildfire burned more than 100,000 acres of the Catalina Mountains, charring the forest and spreading smoke across the Tucson valley. The Bighorn fire
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was named after the bighorn sheep that inhabit the mountains. In the months following the fire, the Arizona Game & Fish Department says one of the most frequent questions they received was: how are the bighorn sheep doing? “They got through the fire OK, as far as we can tell,” AZGFD public information officer
Mark Hart said. “We’re calling the herd stable, which is significant when you consider the fire and the drought… We saw them maneuvering above, below and around the fire, which is what we’d expect. And there were no known mortalities or entrapped bighorns due to the fire that were overcome by smoke.”
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reserve Vistoso has raised almost $1.2 million of their $1.8 million goal for The Conservation Fund to purchase the defunct Vistoso Golf Course from Romspen Vistoso LLC, a Canadian non-bank mortgage lender. “We’re taking every opportunity we can to make our case to the community and they have responded generously,” President of Preserve Vistoso Gayle Mateer said.
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