Summer monsoons were generous this year. Now we hope for the gift ,of good winter rains. Rainfall patterns vary throughout the valley, so neighbors are always happy when it rains on someone!
The appreciation of rain in this region is just one of many topics that bind people together ,within the Altar Valley watershed. For over a dozen years now, people have found common ground and worked as the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance. The Alliance emerged in 1995 when landowners, State and federal resource managers, and interested citizens began talking about fire management and keeping watershed lands in agricultural production. An Altar Valley Watershed Resource Assessment was completed in 2000, thanks to an Arizona Water Protection Fund grant. That same year the Alliance became a 50 l(c)3 not-for-profit conservation organization.