Three-Day Grand Canyon Flood Aims to Restore Ecosystem Annotated
Amanda Lee Myers in Page, Arizona
Associated Press
March 6, 2008

More than 300,000 gallons (more than a million liters) of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border.
That’s enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes, […]

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Surprise Ally of Conservationists: Ranchers | LiveScience Annotated

Ranches and other private lands are important in maintaining the biodiversity of America’s West, suggests a new study.
( LARGE GARDENS and gentlemen’s farms play a similar role in the East.)

Ranching, which involves raising livestock that graze, requires large swaths of land and alters native vegetation in modest […]

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Up in Brown Canyon: Exploring the Center of the Universe
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I had only viewed the unmistakable rock tower of Baboquivari from the north and west–
the most sacred place for the Tohono O’odham tribe: Baboquivari, the center of the O’odham universe.
We passed the fork to Jaguar Canyon and kept going to a grove of Emory and Mexican […]

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