Subject: Center for Biological Diversity

• Pic Hits for the week

  March 6, 1997

• Flashes

  November 25, 1999

• Letters

  From the week of August 23, 2001

  August 23, 2001

• Lawsuit Filed to Protect "Adorable" Arizona Songbird Threatened by Imported Beetles

  U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection ServiceSalt Cedar Leaf BeetleThe Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audobon Society filed a lawsuit in federal court today in an effort to protect the southwestern willow flycatcher bird from imported salt cedar leaf beetles.The leaf-eating beetles were imported from Kazakhstan a few years ago and released (illegally, says the lawsuit) by the government in Utah. The idea was to try and control the exotic tamarisk trees, which are pests themselves

  March 27, 2009

• Doomed River

  The Southwest's last free-flowing stream ran dry for eight days in mid-July. It's time to act

  August 4, 2005

• Letters

  Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 23, 2005

  June 23, 2005

• Letters

  Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 9, 2005

  June 9, 2005

• The Rancher's Revenge

  When environmentalists attacked, rancher Jim Chilton used the best ammunition he could find -- and it came from his enemy

  May 26, 2005

• For the Birds

  Are 18 birds in the nest worth 21 billion gallons of water down the drain?

  May 19, 2005

• Gutless Wonders

  January 13, 2005

• Born Again

  November 4, 2004

• Big Bad Developer

  George Johnson is quickly becoming the most notorious developer in Arizona

  January 22, 2004

• River Gamble

  Rick Renzi's hoping people buy his line that an amendment he's sponsoring has nothing to do with his father's defense business

  September 18, 2003

• Mock Turtle Scoop

  The Spike clears up tale of the tortoises and the harebrained

  January 23, 2003

• Shades of Green

  The new governor appears to have double-crossed environmental supporters in choosing some new agency heads.

  December 19, 2002

• Just Plain Cuckoo

  What was the Audubon Society thinking when it named a pro-development Republican to head its new statewide effort?

  February 14, 2002

• Bye Bye Birdie

  An endangered bird is thriving in the dry bottom of Roosevelt Lake. Too bad it's in the way of water for Phoenix.

  July 19, 2001

• Range Wars

  Tolerance of ranching puts The Nature Conservancy at odds with the environmental community

  April 20, 2000

• Wolfing Down Beef

  A Mexican gray wolf pack learns to kill cattle and loses its freedom

  February 10, 2000

• Mexican Gray Wolf Management Reclaimed by Government; Wolf Numbers in Arizona and New Mexico Too Small, Experts Say

  Image: Wikimedia Commons​ Management of Arizona and New Mexico's small population of re-introduced Mexican gray wolves will be returned to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service following a lawsuit by environmentalists. A news release by the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that sued, states that wolf management had been heading in the wrong direction under a private committee set up to oversee the wolves' reintroduction to the wild in 1998. As part of the lawsuit settlement

  November 13, 2009