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Rio Vista Conservation Project A collaboration between Friends of Rio Vista and the City of Tucson Department of Parks and Recreation to protect and restore Rio Vista Natural Resource Park Coyote Canis latrans. Photo credit Scott Olmstead. Rio Vista Natural Resource ParkA place in the urban desert where wild and human communities restore each other At a bend in the Rillito Spanish for Little River in the heart of Tucson Arizona lies a wild treasure. Rio Vista Natural Resource Park is unlike any of the other parks managed by the City of Tucson Department of Parks and Recreation its primary purpose is to protect the natural ecosystem and it is situated along a major ecological corridor in midtown.