tierra y alma
tierra y alma is a space that shares stories and celebrates the diverse connections of people, places, and non-human life throughout the Baja Arizona borderlands and beyond.
Proyectos
Intersectional projects of reconciliation ecology, heritage conservation, place-making, land access, justice and experiential learning; Reconciliación en el Rio Santa Cruz, Land-based Participatory Storytelling y mas.
Obras
Photo, audio and video of people, places and creatures across borderlands in Arizona and beyond.
Pensamientos
Essays, updates and other infrequent blog posts
- Reconciliation of Open Space & Tucson’s BirthplaceOnce, not long ago, Black Mountain stood over a winding river and mesquite bosque 5 miles wide with 60 ft tall trees. A forest where jaguars from the south and grizzly bears from the north could travel unnoticed between sky islands. Early western ecologists would describe the dense, biodiverse riparian corridor along Santa Cruz RiverContinue reading “Reconciliation of Open Space & Tucson’s Birthplace”
- Our Life Force and LegacyAs a kid exploring the dry river bed of the Santa Cruz, I couldn’t imagine the banks lined with anything other than scraggly palo verde and tamarisk trees. I would have rolled my eyes if you told me to listen for the sounds of trickling water and rustling rushes in the shadow of interstate-10. BackContinue reading “Our Life Force and Legacy”
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