SDCP desert scene  - Illustration by Bill Singleton
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Memorial
Maeveen Marie Behan
1961- 2009

Resolution adopted by the Pima County Board of Supervisors,
renaming the Pima County Conservation Lands System to the Maeveen Marie Behan Conservation Lands System

Video: Excerpt from the 11.3.2009 Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD  Honoring Maeveen Marie Behan

Congresswoman Giffords’ letter to Maeveen

A letter from Bruce Babbitt

Maeveen Marie Behan Conservation Lands System Map:
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click to see "Our Lady of the Sonoran Desert"

Donations in Maeveen’s memory may be made to the Maeveen Marie Behan Conservation Lands System (MMB CLS) Memorial Fund care of the Arizona Land and Water Trust (ALWT). With the direction of Dr. Harry Goldwasser, Maeveen’s husband, this fund will be restricted to erecting her monument in Arthur Pack Park, to acquiring CLS lands for conservation in perpetuity, and to establishing markers honoring her within those CLS parcels that are conserved in perpetuity. Donations are tax deductible and may be made to ALWT’s MMB CLS Memorial Fund c/o Diana Freshwater, Executive Director, Arizona Land and Water Trust, 3127 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona, 85719, www.alwt.org .

 

Newspaper and magazine articles

Maeveen Behan: devoted Sonoran Desert guardian
By Tony Davis

Score One for the Desert - Audubon Magazine article

 

 

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