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  • Have golf's glory days gone by?

    Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

    by Tony Davis, Aug 21, 2006

  • Developer under fire for destroying desert

    Developer George Johnson is being sued by the state of Arizona for major violations of environmental laws, committed in the early stages of his planned La Osa Ranch development

    by Tony Davis, Apr 04, 2005

  • Barren, wild and worthless? Anything but

    Barren, Wild and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert, Susan Tweit’s New Mexico memoir, is back in print

    by Renee Guillory, Jun 09, 2003

  • Desert saved from ‘dingbat’ development

    The Wildlands Conservancy buys 600,000 acres of Southern California desert, making the largest purchase of private land for conservation purposes in the country’s history

    by Jessica Toubman, May 26, 2003

  • Fences go up along the Mexican border

    The Border Patrol wants to erect 249 miles of fences along the Arizona-Mexico border, and some environmentalists are worried about their impact on desert wildlife.

    by Mitch Tobin, Mar 03, 2003

  • County unveils pioneering protection plan

    Tucson's innovative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin desert while still allowing newcomers to build on less environmentally sensitive land.

    by Tony Davis, May 07, 2001

  • Mexico launches a green offensive

    The International Sonoran Desert Alliance hopes, with the cooperation of the U.S. and Mexican governments, to ease some of the problems - many environmental - that tightened border security is causing.

    by Susan Zakin, Mar 31, 1997

  • Save the Sonoran

    Group Sonoran North fights development north of Phoenix, Ariz.

    by Staff, Aug 21, 1995

  • At home in the wasteland

    The Great Basin is changing from within and becoming a more environmentally enlightened place.

    by Jon Christensen, Apr 03, 1995

  • On the borderline: A bleak, flat, grim, hot, gritty and wondrous desert

    United States, Mexico and Tohono O'odham Indians work to preserve the Sonoran Desert.

    by Florence Williams, Mar 21, 1994

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