Silver Fox of the Rockies by Daniel
Tyler tells the story of Delphus E. Carpenter, who sought peaceful
resolutions to Western water problems, and helped create the 1922
Colorado River Compact
Arizona
But just as their understanding of the phenomena becomes mores clear, it’s starting to disappear.
A new ‘school’ of art and geography gathers artists for creative fieldwork in the Sonoran Desert.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
In Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White
Mountain Apache Family Life, anthropologist Keith Basso
collects the reminiscences of Eva Tulene Watt
A new documentary, Making Sense of Place:
Phoenix, the Urban Desert, uses the Arizona megalopolis
to show what happens when urban sprawl is unchecked
Pac-O-Art art vending machine; turning against Wal-Mart;
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; Boy Scouts sued for blaze; ORVers
need potty-training; bull elk get really hungry
Groundwater pumping in the Sierra Vista area may be
already reducing water flow to the San Pedro River
Masai warriors meet Arizona ranchers; Cosimo
Cavallaro’s hammy art; anti-gambling protest gets nasty; in
wealthy Teton County, Wyo., Jackson’s Tiki Taxi thrives;
Newsweek’s strange idea of "budget travel"; mountain biker
vs. mountain lion; and Great Salt
Even the National Rifle Association came out in support of
a Tucson, Ariz., open-space saving bond, which passed in a
landslide despite complaints from critics that it was just
pork
Arizona activists team up with Rep. Raul Grijalva to
create a small-scale wilderness proposal for the Tumacacori
Highlands
A visit to Arizona’s new Agua Fria National Monument
– one of those designated by Clinton at the end of his
presidency – points up the failure of the Bush administration
to protect and preserve the public lands
In Arizona, a historic water deal could give the tiny,
impoverished Gila River Indian Community a path back to its farming
roots – and turn it into one of the West’s next big
power brokers
As the West grows and develops, more people find
themselves drawn into the conflict over open-range laws
Critics say the Yavapai Ranch Land Exchange in Arizona is
a sweetheart deal between developer Fred Ruskin and the Forest
Service
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 bison herd that wandered into Grand Canyon National
Park is largely made up of bison-cow half-breeds, but the state of
Arizona and the park are still undecided about what to do with the
destructive but valuable animals
A court ruling may lead to the removal of the endangered
status currently assigned to Arizona’s cactus ferruginous
pygmy-owls
The environmental group Forest Guardians outbids a rancher
to gain control of a grazing allotment on state school-trust land
in Arizona
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
- Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
- A new investigation reveals depth of skewed policing in Siskiyou County
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