Fighting to protect the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains from the devastating impacts of mining.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate
“Why are we allowing a foreign company to come into Arizona – which is drought-stricken right now – and have a sweetheart deal [on leases], when we are trying to conserve as much water as we can?” says outgoing state House member Regina Cobb.
“It boggles my mind,” She said.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722060260?via%3Dihub#f0030
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El Jefe, the adult male jaguar repeatedly photographed in the Santa Rita and Whetstone mountains years ago, has turned up again in central Sonora, conservationists say.
Two photos of a jaguar the groups say is the cat known around Tucson as El Jefe, were captured in November 2021 by the Mexican nonprofit group Profauna, a conservation group announced in a news release Wednesday. It took some time after that to confirm that the photos were of El Jefe. But a biologist working for the Tucson-based Northern Jaguar Project said in the release that she’s convinced they’re of the same animal that was photographed near Tucson from 2012 through 2015.
That conclusion came from visual analysis and software analysis of spot patterns of photographs, said Juan Carlos Bravo, Conservation Programs Director of the Wildlands Network. This would be the first time El Jefe’s location has been publicly confirmed since the cat was last photographed in the Santa Ritas.
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Watch the April video update about Lake Mead, new water restrictions in Las Vegas, and news from Lake Powell.
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In Nov 2022 Russ captured recent bulldozing in the Santa Rita Mountains. His video starts over the Rosemont mine project on the east side and then swings over the Copper World project on the west side. WATCH VIDEO NOW
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