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  • Getting the lead out

    Condor 134’s harrowing experience with lead poisoning exemplifies these endangered birds’ greatest challenge – which some advocates hope to ease by banning lead bullets in California

    by Mitch Tobin, Mar 05, 2007

  • Rancher wins big in libel suit against enviros

    Arizona rancher and investment banker Jim Chilton wins a $600,000 judgment for libel against The Center for Biological Diversity

    by Mitch Tobin, Feb 21, 2005

  • Squirrels and scopes in the line of fire

    A wildfire on Arizona’s Mount Graham almost reached the University of Arizona’s controversial mountaintop telescopes – and may yet destroy an already endangered squirrel

    by Mitch Tobin, Aug 30, 2004

  • Water holes awash in controversy

    Game managers and environmentalists disagree on the usefulness of artificial water holes for game; environmental groups say they spread disease, attract killer bees, and give predators a convenient spot to ambush prey. The Arizona Game and Fish Department

    by Mitch Tobin, Apr 26, 2004

  • Phelps Dodge looks to revive mining in the Copper State

    Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford, Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental impacts

    by Mitch Tobin, Feb 02, 2004

  • Warm-water native fish are left out in the cold

    A new study by a team of biologists shows little is being done to save a dozen of the Southwest’s threatened and endangered native fish species

    by Mitch Tobin, Jan 19, 2004

  • Delta beast rears its head

    The Interior Department is considering restarting the Yuma Desalting Plant, and environmentalists fear the plant’s salty runoff could destroy Mexico’s Cienega de Santa Clara – the Sonoran Desert’s largest wetland

    by Mitch Tobin, Sep 15, 2003

  • State land no longer just for the cows

    The environmental group Forest Guardians outbids a rancher to gain control of a grazing allotment on state school-trust land in Arizona

    by Mitch Tobin, Sep 01, 2003

  • Bikers want back in to national park

    Tucson, Ariz., mountain bikers are pushing the Park Service to reopen the Cactus Forest Trail in Saguaro National Park

    by Mitch Tobin, Jul 07, 2003

  • Monument presents a management morass

    In Arizona’s Ironwood Forest National Monument, ranchers, recreationists and illegal immigrants are all fighting for space

    by Mitch Tobin, Apr 14, 2003

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