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A recent study of residential landscape types and native bird communities in Phoenix, Ariz., suggests that yards mimicking native vegetation and wildlands offer birds 'mini refuges,' helping to offset the loss of biodiversity in cities A recent study of residential landscape types and native bird communities in Phoenix, Ariz., led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst urban ecologist suggests that yards mimicking native vegetation and wildlands offer birds "mini refuges," helping to...
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After a competitive multi-state process, Accelr8 Technology Corporation (NYSE MKT: AXK) today announces that it is moving its headquarters from Denver, CO to Tucson, AZ. Founded in 1982, Accelr8 develops instruments used for the detection of pathogenic microorganisms. Its BACcel(TM) rapid diagnostic system, in development, is the first technology that is able to count and identify dangerous pathogens and their drug resistance expression...
SUNRISE, Fla. and YUMA, Ariz., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NationsHealth, Inc., a leading healthcare Business Process Outsourcing and engagement-based medical products solutions company, announced today the expansion of its business with the addition of a sixth location in Yuma, Arizona. The new location will meet the rapidly growing demand for its Medicare health insurance enrollment and customer service solutions, and is expected to generate up to 200 jobs in 2012 (agent,...
www.DemandAPlan.org and Full-Page Ad in USA TODAY Ask: What Will President Obama and Governor Romney Specifically Do to Reduce Gun Violence? NEW YORK, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the tragedy in Aurora, a group of survivors and family members of victims of the January 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona today joined Mayors Against Illegal Guns to launch a national campaign, beginning with a full-page advertisement in USA TODAY, to demand a plan of action...
TUCSON, Ariz., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrial Metal Supply Company (IMS), the Southwest's largest metal service center, announced today that it will open its sixth store in Tucson in September of this year. The store, a retail center offering same day access to a broad variety of metals and sizes - continues a tradition of more than 60 years of service and growth. A broad range of businesses, including machine shops and sheet metal fabricators, after-market and off-road...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scottsdale-based MC Companies celebrated the grand opening of their new community The Place At Canyon Ridge. The Place at Canyon Ridge adds 116 units to the Tucson market and is the first project to be completed by the company's newly formed construction division, MC Clark-Wayland. (MCCW) The Place at Canyon RidgeCanyon Ridge's location in close proximity to the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, local shopping and the I...
TUCSON, Ariz., July 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tucson's 2nd Saturdays in July will be International, featuring reggae to belly dancing to Ballet Folklorica, all Downtown on July 14. Scott Avenue will be closed from Congress to Jackson Street, just south of Broadway, for the event. The Cricket Kids' area will again take over the Providence parking lot on Jackson Street and will feature the "G" rated movie, "Shrek" (2000), free of charge. The movie begins at 7:30pm. The Scott Avenue...
TUCSON, Ariz., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 2nd Saturdays Downtown will reconfigure its May event in order to keep its popular urban street festival alive during the streetcar construction. Scott Avenue will have an additional closure from Broadway Boulevard to Jackson Street, (Jackson Street is just south of Broadway Boulevard). Scott Avenue still features the outdoor music stage and maintains its normal vehicular traffic closure between Broadway Boulevard and Congress Street....
TUCSON, Ariz., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- While construction in Downtown Tucson for the modern streetcar has been moved up, closing Congress Street to all traffic from Toole Avenue to Stone Avenue effective April 9th, 2nd Saturdays will continue its International Carnival event on April 14th as planned. All vendors and outdoor entertainment venues will be relocated to accommodate the closures. The Cricket Kids Area will move to the Chase Bank parking lot on the northeast corner...
TUCSON, Ariz., March 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From The Rialto to the Fox Theatre, Downtown Tucson will resemble a Caribbean nation on April 14th with food, music, street performers, tropical costumes and merchant specials for Carnaval, an Internationally Flavored Music & Dance Street Party! Beginning with a Brazilian procession, the event will feature Steel drums, African and Brazilian music, Jazz, Dixieland, Hip Hop, Reggae and Latin Funk music which will surround Downtown,...
Latest Sonoran Desert Reference Libraries
Saguaro National Park is located in the southern region of Arizona in the United States. The park contains 91,442 acres of land, of which 70,905 acres comprise a designated wilderness, and is divided into two areas. Both sections of the park contain portions of the Sonoran Desert and the Rincon and Tuscon mountains ranges. The park received its name from the endemic saguaro cacti that occur throughout the area. In 1933, President Herbert Hoover designated the area as a national monument and...
The Nearctic is one of Earth's eight ecozones. The Nearctic covers most of North America, Greenland, and the highlands of Mexico. Southern Mexico, southern Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean are part of the Neotropic ecozone. The World Wildlife Fund divides the Nearctic into four bioregions. These four regions are the Canadian Shield, Eastern North America, Western North America, and Northern Mexico. The Canadian Shield bioregion extends across northern North America from the...
Brassica tournefortii is a species of mustard plant that is more commonly known as Asian, African and Sahara mustard. It is very similar to other mustard species blooming annually with long stems reaching just over 3 feet in length, but the flowers are a duller yellow. Indigenous to North Africa and the Middle East, this species was transported accidentally to the United States by humans. It grows abundantly in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts and in hot valleys of southern California....
The Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), is a perching bird native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico. It is commonly found throughout the deserts and brush-filled areas of the south-western United States, from about the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and across New Mexico to west Texas, as well as most of Mexico, from the Sonoran-Chihuahuan Deserts and south through the Mexican Plateau to regions south of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in south-central Mexico. The...
The Flat-tailed Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma mcallii, is a found in a small area of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern California, southwestern Arizona, and extreme northern Mexico. They are threatened by development, agriculture, and other man-made intrusions into their small range. The majority of their remaining habitat in the U.S.A. is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
