Saving the Southwest
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By STACI MATLOCK, PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRENDA DOLAN-HOBGOOD  On Sept.
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Did global warming spur severe drought in the Western United States? A new study co-authored by a tree-ring researcher at the University of Arizona shows a possible connection.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 11--THE ACREAGE -- The prospect of putting the first gas station in The Acreage has erupted into a bitter culture clash over the character of this western community.
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By TONY DAVIS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  EXPANSION SOUGHT FOR SAGUARO WEST  Former Interior Secretary  Bruce Babbitt is diving into the effort to save a threatened 160-acre parcel that Saguaro National Park wants for expansion.
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CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman hits the highway with travel gadgets and an eye for the natural, scientific and quirky wonders of the Southwest.Photos: Road Trip gadget companions
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By Dick Morris Is A Former Political Consultant. His Column Runs Thursdays In The, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Dec.
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Normally, transportation routes through wilderness are frowned on by conservationists. But a newly restored railroad in Madagascar is persuading locals not to slash and burn the surrounding landscape.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Western governors convening a two-day summit on the federal Endangered Species Act heard a list of complaints: Too few plants and animals saved.
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Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.
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By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 14--A lawsuit has been filed to stop three Central Texas residents from claiming that they can protect property owners from losing land to the Trans-Texas Corridor, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  DENVER -- The fast-growing states of the arid Southwest must plan for more severe droughts because of a regional warming trend that shows no signs of dissipating, says a new assessment of the Colorado River's water supply.
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By STACI MATLOCK  A proposed forest restoration project on Rowe Mesa, southeast of Santa Fe, has been sent back to the Las Vegas (N.M.) Ranger District for more work, Santa Fe National Forest officials said Friday.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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Amid an intense lobbying effort by energy and ranching interests in the West, a team of Interior Department biologists has recommended that the sage grouse, a bird
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Plans to directly divert flows from the Rio Grande near Santa Fe shouldn't harm the endangered silvery minnow or cause other serious harm to the environment, says an analysis released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  The city of Albuquerque would spend up to $650,000 to preserve a chunk of land in the Sandia foothills under a resolution sponsored by City Council President Martin Heinrich.