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John,
There’s truly something for everyone to love about Saguaro National Park, located just outside of Tucson, Arizona.
Named for the giant cacti that symbolize the Southwest, Saguaro is the ancestral home of the Tohono O’odham people, who continue to play a role in the park’s culture, visiting every year in the early summer to pick saguaro fruit.
In addition to protecting the beautiful landscape of the Sonoran Desert, including large forests of saguaro cacti, this national park provides visitors with over 190 miles of trails — a popular outdoor destination for both Tucson locals and tourists from around the world.
After years of efforts to preserve threatened open space on the doorstep of Saguaro National Park, we’ve reached an inflection point. How the story ends from here is up to you. We’re so close, John. Will you please help us finish the job today?
The park sits next to the 880-acre Sweetwater Preserve, 880 acres of open space that The Trust for Public Land helped our partners in Pima County, Arizona secure in 2004. In June 2020, we were able to permanently secure another 83 acres to connect Saguaro National Park to Sweetwater Preserve. All of this was made possible by the generous support of members of The Trust of Public Land.
Today, we need your help to secure the remaining 128 acres of private land adjacent to Saguaro to extend the boundary of the national park and connect even more open space and trails for people to enjoy.
If we can acquire these last 128 acres, the National Park Service can protect continuous land within Saguaro National Park. We already have a champion in Congress, Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee. Congressman Grijalva has introduced legislation that will formalize our plan to add these 128 acres to Saguaro National Park.
But the next step is yours, John.
Please make a gift to become a member of The Trust for Public Land to help us secure 128 acres of privately-owned land on the doorstep of Saguaro National Park — and stop reckless development within sight of the park.
At a time when powerful political leaders are striking deals to harm and spoil our public lands with drilling, mining, and other reckless development, we’re negotiating deals to protect our public lands for people.
Please help us protect Saguaro National Park while working to save one million acres of land across our nation.
Sincerely,
Kim Elliot
Director of Annual Giving
P.S. When we add 128 acres to Saguaro National Park, instead of acres of asphalt, there will be additional miles of trails, awe-inspiring Sonoran sunsets that stretch across the horizon, and open space as far as the eye can see —
and the legs can hike.
Please help. Please make a gift today.
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