The McDowell Sonoran Preserve is celebrating its 32nd anniversary this month while the city faces two court challenges over the sales tax that helps fund the nation’s largest urban preserve.
The preserve started with just a handful of parcels and has since grown to more than 30,000 acres of natural Sonoran Desert.
Part of the city’s sales tax helps support the preserve. Scottsdale residents approved increases in the sales tax to buy land and support conservation. The preserve starts around 136th Street and Shea Boulevard and stretches all the way north to the Tonto National Forest.
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