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A copper-mining company is courting Superior, Ariz., but
the former mining town – now re-inventing itself as a modest
tourist haven – is unsure whether it really wants a new
marriage with extractive industry.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Jul 16, 2008
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A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global
warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and
national park managers throughout the West.
by Paul Larmer,
Feb 04, 2008
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Arizona developer promises sun, moon and stars
by Marty Durlin,
Dec 10, 2007
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A proposed national heritage area in southern Arizona
would draw attention to unique landscapes and thousands of years of
tradition
by Christine Hoekenga,
Nov 07, 2007
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Arizona's state fish is about to become the first fish
removed from the endangered species list as a result of successful
recovery.
by James Yearling,
Jul 16, 2008
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The Verde River is one of Arizona’s last
free-flowing stream, but environmental and local activists fear an
ambitious planned pipeline, designed to bring groundwater to the
growing Prescott area, will end up sucking the river dry
by Tony Davis,
Jul 16, 2008
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In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan
Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the
most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource
management in the West.”
by Paul Larmer,
Apr 30, 2007
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Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western
Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring
arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous
consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly
Phoenix.
by Paul Larmer,
Apr 16, 2007
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Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz.,
to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it
– the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the
middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of
water.
by Craig Childs,
Jul 16, 2008
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Gail Kimbell and the vanishing Forest Service budget; not
saying the Pledge in Mesa, Ariz.; racing old beaters in California;
talkative men’s rooms; saying it (the Miranda warning, that
is) with flowers.
by Betsy Marston,
Mar 05, 2007
