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For Never Wild
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09 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Succulent Temptations
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21 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Where There's Smoke
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Suzy Becker |
05 Aug 2002 |
Ha. |
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| Topics: Arizona, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton
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21 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton For the first time, genetically modified insects have been released in the wild, in a secret location in the cotton fields of Arizona. The insects, pink bollworms, were modified by scientists to effectively destroy their own species; they are designed to be sterile, so that when they mate with natural bollworms, no offspring will result. Concern about the development is coming f ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, business, GMOs, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bureau of Land Manglement
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26 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Bureau of Land Manglement The U.S. Bureau of Land Management granted permission yesterday to the Marine Corps to conduct two weeks of military exercises in the Arizona desert in late April and early May. Environmentalists are worried that tortoises and rare desert plants might be casualties of the Marine exercises. Known as Desert Scimitar '02, the mission will test the ability of the Marines to deploy large nu ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Back in Black
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16 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Pygmy-aliens
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25 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Pygmy-aliens U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday upheld the listing of the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, rejecting arguments by developers that the owl didn't merit protections because large populations of the species exist in Mexico. She said the act focuses on the status of species in the U.S., regardless of how well the species are surviving elsewhere. ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round
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01 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to reconsider her decision not to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Norton argued that the lizard has plenty of public land on which to live in southwestern Arizona ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Whither the Wolves? New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts |
Michael Robinson, Writers on the Range |
02 Mar 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems the wolves face today are the same as those that ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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