I *love* the Santa Cruz River. I devote an obscene amount of time to this river that flows through the city I live and will die in. But geez do the complex water and management politics turn my hair gray overnight.
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(a mini-thread) Historically, the Santa Cruz River was a wildly dynamic desert river— through cycles of drought and flood, it meandered across a broad floodplain— but it had year-round water and lots of native aquatic species #Tucson google.com/amp/s/tucson.c…

2018 was a dumpster fire of a year, so I’m going to end it positively, with a thread of my favorite birds from our trip to Ecuador in July #birdtherapy 1. Golden-tailed sapphire

Does it get much better than a miniature flying rainbow flag? I think not. Score: 10/10