"Everywhere you look for almost a mile along the Santa Cruz River on Tucson's south side, you see Gooding's willows. Short ones, tall ones, fat ones, thin ones, sometimes spread apart, sometimes packed together almost wall-to-wall in style.
New willow groves, wetland plants grace Santa Cruz River stretch in Tucson
April 12, 2026
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Julius Schlosburg/Santa Cruz Watershed Collaborative
Once a fixture up and down the Santa Cruz before it was mostly dried up by groundwater pumping, these willows have now returned in fine fettle along the Santa Cruz just downstream of Irvington Road."
Continue reading about the regrowth of riparian plants along the Santa Cruz River at Tucson.com.