Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Arizona
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
Agricultural extension agents help farms succeed. But in Indian Country, they’re scarce.
On the Hopi Reservation, one agent is helping her community grow food. But for how long?
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
As temperatures rise, Arizona sinks
Climate change and unregulated wells are depleting the West’s groundwater reserves.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
Land-grab universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
The endless search for Charles Bowden
A longtime Bowden reader remembers the complicated author through two new books.
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Forest Service delays copper mine planned on sacred land
‘Oak Flat is still on death row.’
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As the 2020 elections loom, the House hears testimony about Native voting rights
The hearing coincided with an appeals court allowing Arizona’s ban on ‘ballot-harvesting’ — a practice advocates say helps Native voter turnout.
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Western states widely support refugee resettlement
The president’s executive order meant to limit resettlement, but the West is opting for more.
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Ranchers blindsided by Trump’s border wall
They built a coalition to protect open space. Now, they’re up against the country’s largest construction project.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Who has access to the West?
… and how does it change our views of this place?
Posted inMarch 1, 2020: Predator (Mis)perceptions
Our detention system is bankrupting immigrants
As corporations cash in, mixed-status families are thrown into deep poverty.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Why a wildlife biologist became a social justice advocate
Sergio Avila, known prominently for his jaguar research, shifted his focus to equity in the outdoors.
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What threatens the black-footed ferret?
Biologists are trying to understand why the species continues to disappear in the West.
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Trump’s border wall threatens fish species
The U.S. is skirting conservation laws and withdrawing millions of gallons of groundwater.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
The penetrable wall; baffling thievery; unretiring outdoors
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Scott Warren reflects on the Borderlands
After two years of federal prosecution the humanitarian aid worker was acquitted in November.
Posted inNovember 25, 2019: Forever Mines
Slow-speed chase; intrepid coyotes; bear boxing
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inNovember 25, 2019: Forever Mines
Arizona volleyball team faces harassment
Native American athletes continue to experience racism.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
‘This is a human tragedy and an ecological tragedy’
At a protest in Organ Pipe, border communities fight Trump’s wall.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
To find Jose Montelongo, ICE agents targeted his whole family
One family’s ordeal under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration tactics.