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[Borderlands] Share the Video: "Spend $18B on Pandemic, Not Walls!" [more]
April 30, 2020
If you’re as angry as I am that this administration has increased border wall construction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that instead of pausing this destruction, it is imposing additional new wall projects, please watch the video and learn more...
[Borderlands] Press Release: "New Walls at $100 Million per Mile"... [more]
April 30, 2020
Linked in this press release are court documents showing that the Department of Homeland Security is sloppy and thoughtless in its wall planning -- that it intends to wall off the Cocopah and Quechan Reservations as early as this month -- and that...
[Borderlands] New Drone Footage Shows Trump's Wall Decimating... [more]
April 30, 2020
New drone footage taken by the Center for Biological Diversity shows border wall construction blasting through a wildlife refuge and mountain range in one of the most remote regions of the United States. The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge...
[lawsuit] Press Release "Groups Sue BLM Over Livestock in the San Pedro Riparian NCA" [more]
April 30, 2020
“We’ve spent nearly a decade pointing out the legal flaws with the BLM’s plans to keep cows in this fragile ecosystem,” said Cyndi Tuell, the Arizona and New Mexico Director for Western Watersheds Project. “We’ve given them the scientific evidence...
[livestock on public lands] "Arizona Game & Fish Department Helping Wildlife That Go Moo" by Jeffrey D. Burgess [more]
April 23, 2020
superb "background info" article, excerpted -- from Jeffrey D. Burgess: "The money raised from the annual Arizona Big Game Super Raffle of hunt permit-tags -- donated to hunting groups by the Arizona Game & Fish Commission -- is required by law...
[livestock on public lands] "San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area Threatened" by Jeffrey D. Burgess [more]
April 23, 2020
vital "background info" article, excerpted -- from Jeffrey D. Burgess: "They used circular logic to resolve the protests of their proposal -- to allow livestock grazing to continue on 7,030 acres of the SPRNCA -- including the lower Babocomari...
April 23) Agenda & Minutes -- for Rincon ExComm... [more]
April 23, 2020
Approved MINUTES = = [Endorsements in Pima County Elections?] [Approval of an Acting Vice-Chairperson for Rincon Group?] [Review of Secretary Position?] [CLICK TITLE ABOVE -- FOR MORE]
[water] Sierra Club Joins Lawsuit to Save San Pedro River [more]
March 30, 2020
"The lawsuit against the U.S. Army and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services challenges the agency’s 2014 decision authorizing groundwater pumping connected to the San Pedro River to serve military operations at Fort Huachuca through 2024. The amended...
[mining] Judge Overturns Wildlife Agency’s Approval of Rosemont Mine near Tucson... [more]
February 10, 2020
TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal judge today overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains because of threats to jaguars and other endangered species. U.S....
[mining] Judge won't reconsider his ruling stopping the Rosemont Mine... [more]
October 25, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal judge has declined to reconsider his July ruling that barred construction of the Rosemont open-pit copper mine. U.S. District Judge James Soto turned back a request from Hudbay Minerals to vacate or amend his July 31...