Climate Change Takes Bloom Off Wildflowers | LiveScience Annotated By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 14 March 2008 09:08 am ET Fewer flowers may grace the slopes of the Rocky Mountains as global warming’s earlier springtimes make blooms more vulnerable, a new study suggests. David Inouye of the University of Maryland used data gathered [...]

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Three-Day Grand Canyon Flood Aims to Restore Ecosystem Annotated Amanda Lee Myers in Page, Arizona Associated Press March 6, 2008 More than 300,000 gallons (more than a million liters) of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border. That’s enough water to fill the Empire State Building in [...]

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Surprise Ally of Conservationists: Ranchers | LiveScience Annotated Ranches and other private lands are important in maintaining the biodiversity of America’s West, suggests a new study. ( LARGE GARDENS and gentlemen’s farms play a similar role in the East.) Ranching, which involves raising livestock that graze, requires large swaths of land and alters native vegetation [...]

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Up in Brown Canyon: Exploring the Center of the Universe Excerpts: I had only viewed the unmistakable rock tower of Baboquivari from the north and west– the most sacred place for the Tohono O’odham tribe: Baboquivari, the center of the O’odham universe. We passed the fork to Jaguar Canyon and kept going to a grove [...]

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