As Oro Valley opens its new Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve, one nearby resident is finishing work on a field guide for more than 250 different plants and animals found there.
Henry Brean By the time Oro Valley officially opened its new nature preserve on Friday, Jake Smith had already gotten to know more than 250 of the residents there.
The neighborhood group known as Preserve Vistoso raised $1.8 million in just five weeks late last year to acquire the abandoned Golf Club at Vistoso. Smith and his wife moved into Rancho Vistoso with their son, Kip, 8, and daughter, Bell, 5, less than two years ago. They started using the trails through the abandoned golf course in January.Smith didn’t set out to make a field guide for the preserve. He was just trying to log as many iNaturalist entries as he could from the area.
His quest to document stuff living in the preserve intensified about two months ago, when he set out to compile all the iNaturalist sightings for the area into a field guide for the new park. The guide is now undergoing final edits and rewrites with the help of some experts who are more well-versed in desert flora and fauna than he is.
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