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Lettuce Study This More		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lettuce Study This More A toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in four of 22 winter lettuce samples purchased at Northern California grocery stores, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group. The lettuce contaminated with perchlorate, a hormone disrupter, was traced to farms in Southern California and Arizona tha ...
Topics: Arizona, Barbara Boxer, California, Colorado River, Environmental Working Group, Harry Reid, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Oakless Creek Canyon		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oakless Creek Canyon Flagstaff, Ariz., is shaping up to be the testing grounds for the Bush administration's Healthy Forests initiative, a highly controversial effort to ease environmental reviews of logging projects on many Western public lands and ban reviews entirely in areas where forest fires could threaten human developments. Some 2,000 suburban Flagstaff homes are located just seven ...
Topics: Arizona, logging, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		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 ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Where There's Smoke	Suzy Becker	05 Aug 2002	Ha.

Topics: Arizona, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton		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 ...
Topics: Arizona, business, GMOs, wildlife (all these topics)

Bureau of Land Manglement		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 ...
Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, wildlife (all these topics)

Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys!		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys! Ever since President Bush took office, the war against air pollution hasn't been going well -- but environmentalists do win the occasional battle. Case in point: The U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region chief, Wayne Hector Nastri, recently succeeded in convincing one of the biggest polluters in the Southwest to clean up its act. Tucson Electric Power Co. hoped to double ...
Topics: Arizona, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Mess Transit		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Mess Transit As perhaps the most famous national park in the United States, the Grand Canyon occupies an equally vast space in our national psyche as in our national landscape. Unfortunately, it is also our national bottleneck. Each year, 5 million people flock to the park, leaving 6,000 cars to battle for 2,400 parking spaces every day during the summer. Park officials have recognized the probl ...
Topics: Arizona, national parks, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Free-range Checking		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Free-range Checking The Sante Fe group Forest Guardians is hoping to raise $1 million to boot cattle from thousands of state-owned acres in Arizona and New Mexico. In late November, the group won a case before Arizona's Supreme Court that ended a state policy of allowing only ranchers to lease state school trust land, which includes about 8.3 million ...
Topics: Arizona, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, New Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Back in Black		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, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Sunny Dispositions		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sunny Dispositions San Francisco may be making headlines with its innovative plan to radically expand solar power generation, but other places deserve kudos as well, according to a study released last week by Greenpeace. The study, produced before the San Francisco plan was approved by voters last week, compared both planned and installed solar energy systems in ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Greenpeace, Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Texas, water pollution (all these topics)

Pygmy-aliens		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. ...
Topics: Arizona, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round		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 ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

What a Beauty! Navajo pageant winner is an enviro star	Lisa Jones	23 Jan 2001	Main Dish
Outfitted in moccasins and traditional dresses, the four contestants in the 49th Miss Navajo Nation Pageant -- held this past September in Window Rock, Ariz. -- demonstrated a dazzling array of cultural skills. They discussed, in Navajo, the Treaty of 1868. They carded and spun wool, and they displayed rugs they had woven. They prepared fry bread from scratch over an open fire of their own making. Just about the onl ...
Topics: Arizona, environmental justice, politics (all these topics)

Look on Seabright Side	Ben White	12 May 2000	Muckraker
Jeff Seabright, executive director of the White House Task Force on Climate Change, is bailing out in the waning days of the Clinton administration for a plum job in the private sector, namely as vice president for policy planning at Texaco. Muckraker had been hearing rumblings of the imminent departure for a week, but couldn't get calls returned by Seabright or task force spokesperson Paul Bledsoe. Lo and behold, the call confirming the move came ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, Muckraker, New Mexico, Oklahoma, politics, Texas (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sierra Club Can't Take a Leak	Ben White	12 Jan 2000	Muckraker
A memo circulated recently around the Sierra Club's offices highlighted the "Top Ten" reasons the group should not endorse Vice Pres. Al Gore. The memo, written by Sierra Club board member Michael Dorsey and unearthed by the Washington Times last week, says: "Does Vice President Gore really care about nature? Does he care about protecting people from hazardous waste and toxic pollution? Does he care about human life and the fu ...
Topics: Arizona, elections, Greenpeace, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, South, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

Red Hot Chili Peppers A new preserve keeps chilis from going up in smoke	Amy E. Nevala	07 Jul 1999	Main Dish
A tongue-smoking red chili may stay out of hot water thanks to a new botanical area in Arizona, the first in the U.S. set aside to protect wild relatives of domesticated crops. The botanical area -- a four-square-mile parcel in the Coronado National Forest, 50 miles south of Tucson -- was officially dedicated to the preservation of the red-hot chiltepine last month. Photo by Jes�s Garc�a. For mo ...
Topics: Arizona, food, habitat protection (all these topics)

Bombs Away! Is the military about to blow its chance to protect southwestern desert land?	Susan Zakin	16 Jun 1999	Main Dish
A bombshell exploded a few weeks ago in the midst of tangled negotiations over the fate of the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range in the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. Mohawk Dunes, Goldwater Bombing Range. The Air Force accidentally dropped a 500-pound bomb April 30 on a part of the range that the Air Force is proposing to turn over to the Bureau of Land ...
Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, national parks (all these topics)

Home, Home on the Bombing Range Will the military protect the West's last best place?	Susan Zakin, Writers on the Range	07 May 1999	Main Dish
By Susan Zakin and Writers on the Range 07 May 1999 As parks and forests in the West get overrun by tourists who love too much, the millions of acres controlled by the Department of Defense are suddenly looking sexier. In the Sonoran desert, for example, the last best place is a bombing range. It is a sign of the times that the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range is now being fought over by conse ...
Topics: Arizona, Department of Defense, politics (all these topics)

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