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Remnants of Wright

The desert fascinated Frank Lloyd Wright. 

He once described the nature of Arizona as that of a “cry out for a space-loving architecture of its own.” He peeled back the flesh of saguaros to study their ribs, which would inspire him to invent his own support column design.

Wright left his fingerprints all across Arizona. He personally designed at least 26 projects in Arizona, with 17 of his designs recorded to have been built. However, only 11 built projects stand, all within the Phoenix area, while at least nine of his designs for Arizona have yet to come to fruition.

One of his designs, the David Wright house, located in Phoenix and named after his son, recently escaped an ominous fate.

 

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For a desert, Arizona has a lot of life. It is the inland state with the highest wildlife diversity and has one of the nation’s fastest growing human populations. The Wild West is not quite so wild anymore, and saguaros and suburbia do not make for happy neighbors. All that life has to live somewhere.

It is a tricky balance between wildlife conservation and urban development across the state, but the high biodiversity in Pima County makes the buzz all the louder.

A public meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21 invited the public to discuss Pima County’s Multi-Species Conservation Plan (MSCP), which tries to strike this balance through a permit under Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

[caption id="attachment_309" align="alignleft" width="1440"]King’s Anvil Ranch is part of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance in Southern Arizona. Photo by: Aungelique Rodriguez[/caption]TUCSON, Ariz.- John and Pat King are frustrated with the neglect they believe they have received from the government in regards toward their safety on their ranch in Southern Arizona. 

In Arizona, ranchers have expressed their grief about the price they are paying in damages done by migrants crossing through their property.

For the John and Pat King, it is especially difficult to manage their ranch while living approximately 38 miles north of the border, with land that stretches as far as 50,000 acres.

As owners of King’s Ranch in Altar Valley, the King’s feel that border crossing has been the key component in their family’s safety concerns since the 1970s.

By: Danielle Herrington

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Since its settlement, Arizona has been marketed as a region for healing. Health resorts, hospitals, sanitoriums and tent cities sprung up all around to accommodate an influx of tuberculosis, asthma, allergy and arthritis patients. Tucson alone had at least 15 such institutions in 1933, according to a hospital directory written by James Clark Fifield with the cooperation of the American Hospital Association. 

Sam Hughes, a Welsh immigrant after whom Tucson’s national historic district is named, traveled west to pan for gold but developed tuberculosis at age 29 and came to Tucson to die. According to Hannah Fisher, information services librarian at the Arizona Health Services Library, Hughes’ condition improved with the high altitude and warm, dry air and went on to marry an 11-year-old orphan and have several children.

And Hughes wasn’t alone. Fisher said more than 7000 “lungers” came to Tucson in the late 1800s and early 1900s to be cured of their tuberculosis.

“The place must have been alive with tuberculosis patients,” Fisher said.

Today, many people with health conditions that are irritated by cold, damp climates continue to relocate to Arizona for its bountiful sunshine and warm, dry air.

The lovely desert oasis that is Arizona has long been known as a golf haven. Until recent years, the vibrant green colors of the fairway paralleled the boatloads of money the industry pulled in.

 With hundreds of golf courses scattered across the desert, the golf industry has long since been a pivotal force behind Arizona’s economy. With the economic downturn, revenue has dipped for various reasons, causing certain courses to struggle and city councils to explore alternative options to increase revenue and boost the economy.

According to the National Golf Federation, from 2000-2011 there was a drop of 10 percent in the amount of golfers who played per year overall.

If not remedied, the golf industry’s decline in the state will inevitably continue. Phoenix and Scottsdale are experiencing the economic struggles, but Tucson has gotten it the worst.