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By ANDREA KELLY The Tucson metropolitan area has been awarded another gold-level designation for bicycle friendliness, which is good, but not really where advocates wanted to be. Gold is the second-highest designation from the League of American Bicyclists; only a platinum award is better.

By VALERIE VINYARD Sweet words to savor: "Free fitness help." On the first Thursday of every month, Northwest Medical Center Oro Valley holds a free hour-long lecture through its Commit to be Fit program.

A public forum on wildlife projects and their relevance to the 9,100-acre proposed Arroyo Grande development on state trust land in northern Pima County will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive.

By ERICA MELTZER Protecting the animals that live in the Sonoran Desert will require more than setting aside large tracts of open space around the urban area. Those animals, especially such large predators as black bears and mountain lions, also need ways to travel between natural areas safely.