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By Brad Lancaster, DunbarSpringNeighborhoodForesters.org HarvestingRainwater.com In a continuing effort to enliven our neighborhood’s public space, and make it safer, while collaborating with the ecological systems upon which we all depend, […]

2024 summer rain volumes in Dunbar/Spring neighborhood 2.25″ on 6-22-24, 0.20″ on 6-23-24, 0.15″ on 6-28-24, 0.04″ on 7-2-24, 0.32″ on 7-11-24, 1.40″ on 7-14-24, 0.04″ on 7-16-24, 0.15″ on […]

Our 28th annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Food Forest Planting extended into the adjoining West University Neighborhood for a fifth year here in Tucson, Arizona. But as both neighborhoods […]

The City of Tucson is currently installing and upgrading ADA-accessible ramps where sidewalks intersect neighborhood intersections along bicycle boulevards. (The Dunbar/Spring neighborhood has a bicycle boulevard running along University Blvd […]

Summer 2023 Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters volunteers spent a combined 80 hours in late May, June and early July pruning vegetation along our neighborhood’s street-side public paths in the public rights-of-ways […]

January 2025 update:We got the permit f0r four water-harvesting, traffic-calming chicanes, and hope to start construction later this month. Brad got funding from an Inflation Reduction Act grant through the […]

Our 27th annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Food Forest Planting extended into the adjoining West University Neighborhood for a fourth year here in Tucson, Arizona. But as both neighborhoods […]

The Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters teamed up with youth volunteers from Ironwood Tree Experience this February to rehabilitate and renew street-runoff harvesting basins that had been built in 2010 (by […]

This is turning out to be a great native wildflower year out in the wild (beautiful at Picacho Peak Park right now) and here in the neighborhood where folks sowed […]