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Description: Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve is a place of majestic beauty, quiet solitude, abundant wildlife, ancient artifacts, and community pride. Envisioned to be nearly 35,000 acres, or roughly 57 square miles when approved by Scottsdale voters in 1994, this preserve comprises the rugged McDowell Mountains and adjoining high desert that has been preserved in perpetuity as natural open space. Since then the urbanization of north Scottsdale has occurred. Frank Lloyds Wright’s Taliesin West was