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When people visit Southern Arizona in the summer, they often wonder just how it can be that people could live in this heat year-round. The question is often answered with a colloquial desert saying: It's a dry heat. Yes, it is indeed a dry heat here in Tucson and Southern...

One of the most valuable tools I use every year to answer the above question is a heat map. No, this doesn't chart the rising June temperatures—a necessary hardship to endure while waiting for the cooling, monsoon rains of July and August. The heat map is actually a statistical tool...

When I walk through a vacant parcel of land for the first time, like most people, I am impressed by the ease and ambiance of the entryway, the vegetation, the topography, the views and the physical attributes of the parcel and its surroundings. As my clients may continue to concentrate...

As I discussed in my last blog, reading topography can be a bit of an art. Those who deal with it regularly gain the capability to see the contours literally come into focus as a three dimensional pattern. For example, I can look at a topographic map and tell whether...