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Recent Articles from Grant Martin, Cronkite News Service
As climate warms, Arizona’s deserts, forests, cities face uncertain futures
A dwindling Saguaro National Park in the Sonoran Desert outside Tucson suffocated by an invasive grass. Baren prairies where pine forests once thrived near Flagstaff. The Colorado River run dry, leading to desalinated ocean water as drinking water for the state. These are just a few of the possibilities that experts offered for how Arizona’s forests, deserts and major metropolitan areas might[...]
Sealing off Grand Canyon National Park history, one mine shaft at a time
Crews work to seal off mines abandoned mines in the Grand Canyon, trying to avoid damaging historic relics.
Proposition seeks constitutional right to hunt, fish; foes call it a power grab
Advocates for those who hunt and fish say a ballot proposition that would establish a constitutional right to those sports in Arizona is long overdue.
Officials, locals spar over plan to restrict off-highway vehicles in national forest
Forest officials intend to close some of these trails as part of a plan to reduce the impact of off-road travel, as part of an initiative launched in 2005 to mitigate the effects of off-highway vehicles in all 155 national forests.
Wildlife group, utility at odds over project’s consideration of rare loach minnow
A tiny fish and a utility company’s plan to repair a natural gas pipeline along an eastern Arizona river have a wildlife advocacy group tangling with federal regulators.
Wildlife groups slam EPA for not banning lead ammunition for hunters
Environmental Protection Agency is shirking its responsibilities and contributing to the deaths of animals by failing to ban the use of lead-based ammunition, according to a coalition of wildlife advocacy groups.
Tucson-based advocacy group makes industry of suing on behalf of wildlife
The Center for Biological Diversity has achieved its high profile in part through its litigation-based approach to conservation. Since July 1, for example, the center has filed 12 lawsuits to prevent development around the country that it contends would threaten various endangered species.
