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Copper Creek

Tribe and Environmentalists to Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Impacts to Threatened Owls

The BLM and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said no Mexican spotted owls lived near a proposed mine site in Arizona’s Sky Islands when it permitted mineral exploration. Photo evidence shows otherwise.

By Wyatt Myskow

A Mexican spotted owl sits on a tree branch. Credit: Shaula Hedwall/USFWS
Hector Denogean Sr. stands the Mammoth Miners Memorial in Southern Arizona. Denogean says he can’t support a new mine that may take more water out of the drying region. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry

By Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff

Melissa (left) and Steve Fry look out at the proposed mine site in the Galiuro Mountains outside Mammoth, Arizona, on March 14. Credit: Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow

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