Gary Paul Nabhan

South32 has been stuffing our mailboxes with fliers about the bright, sustainable future they are building for us. Their claim is premature.

At an open house at Patagonia High this fall, South32’s Hermosa Mine staff and their Westlands consultants revealed a map of their preferred exit route from the Patagonia Mountains that would bypass the town of Patagonia less than two miles from the center of town. It is ironic that they presented this map at the very […]

We live in an “enchanted place,” according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Its author, naturalist Edwin Way Teale, described Patagonia’s site along Sonoita Creek as one filled with wildlife, woods, surprising people and delightful mountain trails. Because of such unique natural and cultural assets at our doorstep, the 2009 Patagonia General Plan outlined planning principles […]

Arizonans were caught off guard when they heard that the Santa Cruz National Heritage Area had recently been designated by Congress and signed into law at the White House on March 12, 2019. Suddenly, we found ourselves living in a 3,300 square mile landscape that was nationally recognized for its distinctive natural and multi-cultural heritage. […]