There is no single smoking gun that explains why our creeks are drying up. The good news is that we can do something about it.
Ron Pulliam
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You Ask. South32 Spins.
This pair of juvenile owls were photographed near the Hermosa mine in September 2020. Photo by Glen Goodwin South 32(S32) placed an advertisement in the November 2020 issue of the Patagonia Regional Times that carried the headline “You Ask. We Answer.” The ad began with the statement “The Ask. In the summer of 2019, a […]
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Border Wall Construction Starting in San Rafael Valley
Ron Pulliam took this photo Nov. 28, approximately one mile west of the Coronado National Monument in the San Rafael Valley. He wrote that “Janice and I took a drive to the San Raphael Valley yesterday to escape COVID confinement and look for signs of border wall construction. We drove on the border patrol access […]
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Defining a Restoration Economy
Associates work on a trinchera on the Babocomari Ranch in Elgin. A restoration economy is a relatively new idea defined as the economic activity associated with the restoration of degraded lands. In other words, a restoration economy is the opposite of an extractive economy that creates economic activity by extracting or depleting natural resources. In […]
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What We Must Not Accept
I recently participated in a small roundtable discussion with, among others, Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ashe told the small group that he sees a “giant clash” between those who favor conservation and those who favor economic development and that he believes that conservationists “must accept a world with fewer […]