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Grijalva-led bill would keep West rugged

March 23, 2008

Arizona Daily Star

Legislation spearheaded by Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Arizona, to preserve the rugged American West should become law.
The Committee on Natural Resources approved on March 12 the bill to make permanent the 26 million-acre National Landscape Conservation System. It would protect more than 3.3 million acres and 56 miles of trails in Arizona.

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Congress moves closer to preserving Western beauty

March 14, 2008

by Faye Bowers, Christian Science Monitor

Sonoran Desert National Monument, Ariz. - This swath of desert is in full bloom. The mountainsides blanketed by towering saguaro forests are now dotted with yellow and orange Mexican poppies, purple lupine, and white chicory. The monument is home to three wilderness areas and two historic trails.

These 487,000 acres sit along a corridor between Arizona's two largest metropolitan areas, Phoenix and Tucson, where demographers predict the population will increase from 5 million people to more than 10 million by 2040.

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Saving special lands

March 10, 2008

Arizona Republic

From the breathtaking formations of the Vermilion Cliffs in northern Arizona to the historic Lewis and Clark Trail in Idaho, the Bureau of Land Management oversees extraordinary Western treasures. While amazingly varied, these places need to be organized in a coherent system.

Then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt started the ball rolling in 2000, establishing the National Landscape Conservation System by decree.

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BLM, groups push permanent protection of conservation areas

March 06, 2008

by April Reese, Land Letter

LAS CIENEGAS NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA, Ariz. -- Atop a rocky hill in the heart of this mountain-ringed expanse of undulating grasslands and cottonwood-lined creeks, rancher Mac Donaldson gestures toward a stretch of bottomlands below.

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Groups, feds join to push law aimed at saving lands in West

March 03, 2008

by Dennis Wagner, Arizona Republic

IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT - Elena Daley, an administrator with the federal Bureau of Land Management, climbs atop a volcanic formation in the hills of southern Arizona and studies ancient petroglyphs scratched into stone by Hohokams.

There is a stick man, a pregnant sheep, a spiral.

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