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Conservationists turn to the Courts to Battle Mining in Patagonia on behalf...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2014 Contact: Courtney Sexton, csexton@defenders.org, 202-772-0253 Wendy Russell, wendy@patagoniaalliance.org, 520-477-2308 Groups file complaint against Forest...
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PARA’s 2014 Activities and Accomplishments
It’s hard to believe that the end of the year is nearly upon us! When 2014 began, your friends, neighbors and colleagues here at the Patagonia Area Resource Alliance (PARA) were gearing up for a busy...
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Good News: A Gift For Everyone
The AZ Mining Inc (Wildcat Silver) Hermosa drilling project timeline was just pushed back–now almost a full year behind the previous schedule. We couldn’t have planned a better holiday gift! The...
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Agency Rescinds Approval of Destructive “Sunnyside” Mining Project Based on...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Plug Pulled on Proposed “Sunnyside” project in Arizona’s Coronado National Forest Tucson, Ariz. — Today the U.S. Forest Service temporarily put the brakes on an environmentally...
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Forest Service Authorizes Urgent Clean Up of Abandoned Lead Queen Mine In...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Regional Forester Issues Time Critical Removal Action Approval Memo Patagonia, Arizona – Yesterday, the Southwestern Regional Office of the US Forest Service issued an Action Memo...
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Court Overturns Rosemont Air Pollution Permit
ADEQ decision ruled “not supported by evidence” and “an abuse of discretion” Save the Scenic Santa Ritas Media Release (Phoenix, Ariz.) A Maricopa County (AZ) Superior Court today overturned a key air...
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Obama administration must act to avoid mine waste disasters
EARTHWORKS PRESS RELEASE Letter from community and enviro groups around the country urges EPA, Forest Service, BLM to respond to lessons of Mount Polley mine disaster findings A coalition of more than...
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Upcoming PARA Events for April and May
Patagonia EARTHfest Event: Trails Day • Earth Day • Arbor Day A celebration of our biological diversity, cultural heritage, and local resiliency in Patagonia, Arizona. The 6th Annual Patagonia...
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Sounds of Music Bring Awareness to the Mountain Empire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kevin Pakulis Band to play benefit concert for Friends of the Mountain Empire, with special guest appearance from Congressman Raúl Grijalva TUCSON, ARIZ. — The Kevin Pakulis Band...
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Apache Elders to join Oak Flat Street Fair in Tucson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Carlos, AZ – Tribal elders of the San Carlos Apache Tribe are geared up to join the Protect Oak Flat Street Fair that is slated for Sunday, April 19th in Tucson, in...
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Forest Service re-issues Decision for Sunnyside Proposal by Regal Resources
New Decision Memorandum Issued for Sunnyside Mineral Drilling Project in Patagonia Mountains The Forest Service sent out a notice on April 10th that a new Decision Memo has been issued for the Regal...
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Forest Service Outlines Clean Up Plans for Abandoned Lead Queen Mine
Toxic overflow from the historic Lead Queen mine in the Patagonia Mountains drains towards Harshaw Creek. The Coronado National Forest, Sierra Vista Ranger District hosted a community meeting in...
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Oak Flat Named One of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places
photo by Hunter Kerhart The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named Oak Flat, near Superior, Arizona, to its 2015 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The annual list...
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Provinces & Territories Must Act To Avoid Mine Waste Disasters
Canadian Mines Ministers Conference in Halifax: Provinces & Territories Must Act To Avoid Mine Waste Disasters While Energy & Mines Ministers from across Canada are meeting in Halifax for their...
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Purchase of Historic Trench Mine Pending, Lead Queen Cleanup Stalled
AZ Mining Inc / Wildcat Silver to Purchase Historic Trench Mine Wildcat Silver, now known as AZ Mining Inc, recently announced plans to purchase the 300 acre historic Trench Camp Mine from Asarco...
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Court hearing against Sunnyside mining exploration in Patagonia Mountains
The Patagonia Area Resource Alliance and Defenders of Wildlife were in federal court in Tucson last Thursday to present oral arguments against the Forest Service’s unlawful approval of a mining...
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Conservation Wins in Court over Exploratory Drilling in Arizona’s Mountain...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Sexton, csexton@defenders.org, 202-772-0253 Wendy Russell, wendy@patagoniaalliance.org, 520-477-2308 Federal court flips the off switch on Forest Service’s...
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USFS Community Update: Lead Queen Abandoned Mine Cleanup
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service – Southwestern Region Coronado National Forest Arizona Environmental Cleanup Actions The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service...
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Modern mining is increasingly dangerous
New research validated: mining disasters on the rise because of modern mining techniques EARTHWORKS News Release Washington, D.C. — A mine waste dam at the Germano open-pit iron ore mine in Brazil’s...
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The Price We Pay For The Mining Game
The Price We Pay for the Mining Game, By Michael Stabile A few years back Arizona Minerals, AKA Wildcat Silver, said they had discovered a great big silver deposit up in the Patagonia Mountains. They...
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Army Corps Recommends Denial of Essential Permit for Rosemont Mine
Massive Mine Threatens America’s Only Known Jaguar, Local Water Supplies In an important development in the effort to save America’s only known jaguar, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Los Angeles...
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Defenders of Wildlife Welcomes Recovery Plan for Ocelot; Concerns Regarding...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 15, 2016 Ocelot, photo US FWS TUCSON, Ariz. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a recovery plan that will guide restoration and protection of the ocelot...
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Repairs to be Performed on Lead Queen Mine Closure
Release Date: Sep 1, 2016 The Coronado National Forest is designing a system to augment environmental cleanup work previously performed at the Lead Queen Mine on the Sierra Vista Ranger District. An...
View ArticleWriting NEPA Scoping Comments: EA or EIS projects
By Jenny Neeley, Attorney at Law Introduction: National Environmental Policy Act & Scoping Process The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires all federal agencies to prepare a...
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Latest News From Arizona Mining Inc
Arizona Mining Inc has had 10 drill trucks for 24 hours/7 days a week since March on their private property. Now AMI is interested in drilling on public land, the Hermosa-Taylor Deposit Drilling...
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Southern Arizona’s Mountain Empire: Sanctuary for Rare and Unusual Species
Imagine a little-known national treasure — a largely wild land home to ocelots, exotic and imperiled birds like elegant trogons and Mexican spotted owls, imperiled reptiles and amphibians like the...
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POTENTIAL IMPACT OF MINING ON PATAGONIA AREA Early in May, Arizona Mining Inc (AMI) released its Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). As a Canadian company trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, AMI...
View ArticleWater Matters More: Join us for a screening of our newest film
Join us on Tuesday, August 7th for “Water Matters More”! Tuesday, August 7th from 6:00-7:30pm at the Tin Shed Theater in Patagonia, Arizona Dear friends of the Patagonia Area Resource Alliance, We’re...
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SUNNYSIDE EXPLORATORY DRILLING PROPOSAL in the PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): The Scoping Process NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970 by President Richard Nixon as the result of massive citizen advocacy for environmental...
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21st Century Industrialized Mining Threats in the Patagonia Mountains
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View ArticleMining Town of Ruby
Life in a 1930s Mining Town The post Mining Town of Ruby appeared first on Patagonia Area Resource Alliance.
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How to Look for Bias in Economic Reports
Many of us rely on information shared by industries, scientists, and economic professionals. We follow published reports—reading them in hopes we’ll learn something new, make better decisions, or plan...
View ArticlePARA Partners with Sky Island Alliance on Critical Wildlife at the Border...
We at Patagonia Area Resource Alliance are excited to share details on a new partnership with Tucson-based nonprofit Sky Island Alliance. The work being done in Sky Island Alliance’s “Wildlife at the...
View ArticleCitizen Scientists: The Unsung Heroes Protecting Wildlife at The Border
Today, we’re sharing a story written by our communications coordinator, Anna Sofia. Sofia shadowed PARA as a field volunteer for a few months before coming to work with us and wrote this story as part...
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Creature Feature: Hooded Skunk (Mephitis Macroura)
Today, we’re excited to feature the hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura). This little creature has been captured on Sky Island Alliance cameras as part of the Border Wildlife Study and captured on...
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Six Nature Photos to Use as Your Zoom or Skype Background
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, PARA has been using Zoom to meet safely with our board, family, friends, and loved ones. We suspect you may be embracing the same technology (or similar...
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Flora Feature: Patagonia Mountain Leatherpetal (Graptopetalum Bartramii Rose)
For this Friday Flora Feature, we’re exploring a rare herb-succulent found in the Arizona Sky Islands. Commonly called the Patagonia Mountain leatherpetal, Bartram’s stonecrop, or Graptopetalum...
View ArticleTen Arizona 2020 Election Candidates Answer Important Environmental Questions
In June 2020, Patagonia Area Resource Alliance reached out to 14 total candidates running for seats in the Patagonia Town Council, Santa Cruz County, and Arizona’s State LD2 this November. We asked...
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Border Wildlife Study: Sky Island Alliance Shares 90-Day Findings
Feature image credit: Sky Island Alliance This week, Sky Island Alliance announced the list of species they’ve found during the first 90 days of running their remote camera project. Patagonia Area...
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48 Species Detected in Patagonia Mountains during Remote Camera Study
In April, Patagonia Area Resource Alliance (PARA) partnered up with Sky Island Alliance for their Border Wildlife Study—a camera-based project that will help organizations and the public better...
View ArticleHow to Write an Op-Ed on Patagonia’s Mining Issues
At Patagonia Area Resource Alliance (PARA), our mission is to protect the water and wildlife from the pressures and realities of 21st-century industrialized mining. As such, we have watched, with...
View Article50 Days to Take Action: Defend the Patagonia Mountains
The Patagonia Mountains in Arizona, a hotspot for sensitive, threatened, and endangered species, are in danger of abuse by extractive industries including senior Australian mining company South32 and...
View ArticlePARA Spreads Awareness of Local Water, Roads, and Power Concerns
CONTACT: Anna Sofia, Communications and Outreach Coordinator Patagonia Area Resource Alliance info@patagoniaalliance.org PARA Spreads Awareness of Local Water, Roads, and Power Concerns Patagonia...
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A Glimpse of Duquesne in the Patagonia Mountains
Dawn Walker, a part-time local to the Patagonia Mountains, recently submitted her take on living in Duquesne. Her story is beautiful and will kick off our first blog in our new “Patagonia Voices”...
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What is a Watershed and How is it Threatened?
Watershed. A watershed moment. A shed for water? When talking about the issues surrounding mining in the Patagonia Mountains, one is inevitably going to hear mention of a “watershed”. But what does...
View ArticlePARA Asks State Agency to Delay Permit Process for South32’s Hermosa Project...
CONTACT: Carolyn Shafer, Mission Coordinator and Board Member Patagonia Area Resource Alliance info@patagoniaalliance.org PARA Asks State Agency to Delay Permit Process for South32’s Hermosa...
View ArticleMining History: the 1872 Mining Law
One would be forgiven for being unaware of the major events of 1872, so allow us to remind you: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley to win the U.S. presidency. Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is served...
View ArticleGreenwashing
History Pollution of our planet reached such a dire stage in the late 1960s that Lake Erie was declared “dead” and the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire. The 1970s saw the creation or...
View ArticleMeet your Sky Islands Flora and Fauna
Common Names: Brown Vinesnake, Neotropical Vinesnake, Thornscrub Vinesnake, Mexican Vinesnake Scientific Name: Oxybelis aeneus Range: From extreme south-central AZ (Patagonia, Atascosas, &...
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PARA Biodiversity Tour
by Vincent Pinto In conjunction with PARA’s new film, Biodiversity in the Heart of the Sky Islands, a fund-raising raffle was held for 15 slots in a Biodiversity walk in and near the Patagonia...
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