Acting to Protect Public Land (APPL)

08/15/2023

08/09/2023

Beautiful morning in the mountains.

05/17/2020

A long-simmering dispute has erupted into the open between the former head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Arizona office and the former chief of his Tucson staff over

05/15/2020

The Sonoran Desert National Monument is nearly 500,000 acres of desert landscape southwest of Phoenix. The Bureau of Land Management is considering whether to allow livestock grazing within parts of the monument, but conservation groups are speaking out in opposition. The Western Watershed Project a...

04/28/2020

Damaging impacts on a wide range of mammals, birds, fish and insects are expected, say environmentalists, researchers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials.

04/03/2020

Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural

03/24/2020

As biodiversity disappears, the risk to human health increases. Experts say we need to protect wild spaces and species to help prevent future outbreaks.

03/09/2020

CAVE CREEK – Cave Creek residents filled the Cave Creek Council Chambers at the town council meeting on Monday, February 24, 2020. In the center of the room, there were several displays of wild plants that are found in Arizona. Much of the meeting was largely focused on a w**d known as Stinknet, a...

03/04/2020

Every tree dies eventually and its ecological value continues long after the last leaf falls. Whether it still stands, is reduced to a hollowed stump, or exists as downed wood, most of its “life” o…

03/03/2020

U.S. wildlife managers proposed to set aside a vast area across seven Western states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South America to its breeding grounds in Mexico and the U.S.

03/03/2020

But the company reporting the most releases said its estimate is erroneously high, though it hasn't provided new numbers.