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Our Work

Watershed Management Group is Tucson based non-profit organization providing education, restoration, and policy leadership to protect and restore local watersheds.

River Run Network

A community of people working to restore our heritage of flowing creeks and rivers in the Santa Cruz and San Pedro binational watersheds.

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Living Lab & Learning Center

The premier educational center for hydro-local living, where rainwater provides the majority of our indoor and outdoor water needs.

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Cool Tucson 5 Degrees

Cooling our desert city by 5 degrees through native landscaping practices and greening our cities transportation infrastructure.

Find Out How You Can Help Cool Tucson

Community Conservation

Promoting sustainable desert living through classes, workshops, certification courses, and partnering with schools, neighborhoods, and religious centers.

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From community education to river restoration to policy work--our work is sustained by generous donors like you.

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Learn, engage, and make a difference in your community.

Sep
30
25

7th Annual Beavers & Brews
Tuesday September 30, 2025 5:30pm to 8:30pm
In-person

Advance online ticket purchase of $25 is available until 3pm today! Afterwards, you will need to…

Oct
01
25

Hydrate Phoenix: Vegetable Garden in the Low Desert
Wednesday October 1, 2025 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Online

This class will cover good practices for site selection, soil preparation, plant selection, and…

Oct
02
25

In-Person Greywater Harvesting Class (Tucson Water)
Thursday October 2, 2025 4:30pm to 7:30pm
In-person

This in person class meets the requirement for Tucson Water's greywater rebate and walks…

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Recent Blog Posts

Explore our collection of educational materials, guides, and tools to help you live sustainably and engage in environmental stewardship.

Protect Our Water Future, What You Can Do About Project Blue
August 29, 2025 Program area: Policy and Government

Despite the City of Tucson’s clear rejection of Project Blue, the developer, Beale, is continuing to move the project forward in other ways…

Advancing Shade Equity Through Education
August 14, 2025 Program area: Community Conservation, Schoolyard

Like many other resources, shade is a privilege.  Underserved neighborhoods often have fewer trees and vegetation, meaning less shade and hotter streets.…

What Makes a Micro-Climate?

August 10, 2025 Program area: Cool Tucson, For Your Home, Living Lab

How we design our landscapes has a big impact on the temperature of our spaces. Choose a few of these cool down strategies to create your own micro-climate.…

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Volunteer with WMG

Whatever your interests, we have a way for you to get involved. Want to remove invasive plants from our local rivers? Count beavers? Or maybe greeting visitors at the Welcome Center or serving on our board is more your speed? Analyzing data? Teaching classes? There are lots of ways to get involved!

Learn More About Volunteering

Educational Resources

Explore our collection of educational materials, guides, and videos to help you live sustainably and engage in environmental stewardship.

Living Lab
Resource Library
Classes & Tours
Professional Training
Schoolyard
Tucson Docent Program

Land & Water Acknowledgement

Watershed Management Group acknowledges that we live, learn, work, and engage with community on the ancestral lands of the Hohokam and Sobaipuri, and those of the Apache, Pascua Yaqui, and Tohono O’odham, whose relationship with this land continues to this day. We acknowledge that water in the Sonoran Desert is of great spiritual, physical, and ecological significance to be protected, cherished, and celebrated.

We invite you to learn more about the indigenous communities, the lands we inhabit and the history of the land and its people by visiting: www.native-land.ca