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2024 summer rain volumes in Dunbar/Spring neighborhood 2.25″ on 6-22-240.20″ on 6-23-240.15″ on 6-28-240.04″ on 7-2-240.32″ on 7-11-241.40″ on 7-14-240.04″ on 7-16-240.15″ on 7-18-240.05″ on 7-20-24Total thus far 4.6 inches […]

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 […]

As per the City of Tucson’s process to request traffic calming, Brad Lancaster, of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters met with Jesse Soto (jesse.soto@tucsonaz.gov) of the City of Tucson transportation department […]

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 […]

“Maintenance” often keeps sections of our communities treeless and lifeless when beneficial volunteer plants are weeded out. But if we hone our plant identification skills, we can instead learn to […]