By Gary Nabhan//February 26, 2024//

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By Gary Nabhan//February 26, 2024//

This last year, the Arizona government repeatedly received favorable national attention for positive conservation actions: protecting the state’s scarce groundwater supplies from foreign-owned farms that repeatedly violated laws or over-pumped...

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