Why some wildlife crimes are difficult to prosecute.
Tim Vanderpool
Posted inMay 27, 2002: Wolf at the door
Wolves still struggle in the Southwest
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. The effort to restore Mexican gray wolves to the Southwest started later and smaller than the restoration of wolves to the Northern Rockies, and it has run into stiffer local resistance. But “we’re on track,” says Colleen Buchanan, assistant Mexican wolf recovery coordinator for […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 1997: Radioactive waste from Hanford is seeping toward the Columbia
Greens and cowboys gang up on a mine
TUCSON, Ariz. – Looking south, the Santa Rita Mountains rise dreamlike from the desert floor, a hazy string of stony monoliths peppered with stands of oak and pine. Only a 30-minute drive from Tucson city limits, the range is typically thick with hikers, birders and hunters seeking refuge from traffic, noise and heat. But from […]
Posted inMarch 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
Study or preserve: Ideals collide at Arizona park
ORACLE, Ariz. – Before she died in 1976, Lucille Kannally willed her ranch here to the Defenders of Wildlife, on the condition that the national environmental group preserve the 4,000-acre patch of desert foothills as wildlife habitat. But the group later handed off the ranch to a government agency, Arizona State Parks, which now plans […]