UA Science: Tumamoc is looking for people who are interested in science and want to share their excitement, knowledge, and skills. Get involved by becoming a Hill Walker Docent or Citizen-Scientist Volunteer today!
- Volunteer Opportunities at Tumamoc
- Spring 2012 Walking Docent Training Schedule
- Spring 2012 Walking Docent Training materials
- Spring 2011 Walking Docent Training materials
In the midst of metropolitan Tucson lies a place that is both a natural refuge and a cultural landscape, it bears more than 2500 hundred years of desert history waiting to be read. Tumamoc Hill is a landscape that has been foraged and farmed, drawn upon and dwelled upon for thousands of years. For more than a century, it has also been the site of continuously-running scientific experiments that have run longer than those at any other sites in the deserts of the world.
The Carnegie Institution of Washington established the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill in 1903. Purchased in the 1950’s by the University Of Arizona Board Of Regents, the 860-acre ecological reservation is now both a US National Historical Landmark and a US Archaeological District.
Tumamoc creates experiences that transform people’s lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of ecological and anthropological research. It is become a link between the past and a sustainable environmental future for us and for Arizona’s native species. Tumamoc is the key to helping our society find tangible ways to keep our deep natural and cultural roots alive and thriving in a desert city.
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