Despite a few high-profile wildfires, 2013 was a fairly quiet fire season after all.
Items by Mitch Tobin
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
Arizona rancher and investment banker Jim Chilton wins a
$600,000 judgment for libel against The Center for Biological
Diversity
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
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
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
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
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
The environmental group Forest Guardians outbids a rancher
to gain control of a grazing allotment on state school-trust land
in Arizona
Tucson, Ariz., mountain bikers are pushing the Park
Service to reopen the Cactus Forest Trail in Saguaro National
Park
In Arizona’s Ironwood Forest National Monument,
ranchers, recreationists and illegal immigrants are all fighting
for space
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.
Southern Arizona cities are importing cacti from west
Texas, and demand is beginning to outstrip the natural
supply.
Road closures to protect endangered Sonoran pronghorn in
Ariz.'s Cabeza Prieta Nat'l Wildlife Refuge and Organ Pipe Cactus
Nat'l Monument will keep the public out, but may not stem the tide
of drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and Border Patrol
agents.
Tucson pilot Sandy Lanham wins a MacArthur "genius grant"
for her work flying scientists and conservationists while charging
no more than the cost of fuel and airport fees.
Arizona State Parks is fighting a proposal resort near
Benson, Ariz., which some fear could harm the nearby Kartchner
Caverns.
The U.S. Park Rangers Lodge of the Fraternal Order of
Police lists the 10 most dangerous national parks in the
country.
In Phoenix, Mark Warren Sands is charged with burning down
eight trophy homes, but the June arsons that burned three
brand-new, vacant luxury homes in Tucson's Pima Canyon Estates
remain a mystery.
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission wants to pull the
plug on Mexican wolf reintroduction.
At the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona,
ranchers, environmentalists and agencies are at odds over whether
grazing could help beat back an exotic grass, Lehmann
lovegrass.
The 1872 Mining Law may allow the Rainbow Talc Mine to
resume operations, despite the mine's location in a wilderness area
of California's Death Valley National Park.
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