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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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Results for keyword: Desert Land Use, Planning

Have golf's glory days gone by?

Developer under fire for destroying desert

Barren, wild and worthless? Anything but

Desert saved from ‘dingbat’ development

Fences go up along the Mexican border

County unveils pioneering protection plan

Mexico launches a green offensive

Save the Sonoran

At home in the wasteland

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

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