#theres this perception that the sonoran desert is just dry and desolate and harsh and it makes me so sad :-( cos thats not the case at all

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tucson used to have water flowing through it, real, actual water, there was a river full of fish and frogs and providing a habitat for so many native plants and animals… i need to stop thinking about this cos its fucking me up that that will never quite be the case again because of the water being needed to sustain the city and agriculture and everything else

#kd #the santa cruz river heritage project makes me so emotional i love the efforts to bring part of the river back #there are plants and birds and frogs and lizards and bugs and theyve reintroduced native fish #people have looked at old ecological studies and these are the same species that lived along and in the river a hundred years ago #theres this perception that the sonoran desert is just dry and desolate and harsh and it makes me so sad :-( cos thats not the case at all #its a very interesting ecosystem with so much unique life and there are waterways with native aquatic species still! #SORRY for the tag rant im bored in the car (passenger) and were driving through the desert and i keep fucking thinking #how could people live here and not appreciate it… i dont get it </3 #.pdf