Materials Sector

Hikers Find Gun, Grenades, and "Possible C-4 Explosives" in Desert, Along With Map to More

Attention: if you hid your guns, ammo, grenades, and "high explosives" in the desert near State Route 87, you're not very good at hiding things.Hikers found the aforementioned items in the past couple of days, and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and a pair of federal agencies are now utilizing ... More >>

Flower Arrangement

Home Is Where the Art Is

Fund-Blazer

Learn about the green that makes more green

Gold Rush: Soaring Prices, Unscrupulous Precious-Metals Dealers, Right-Wing Paranoia -- We've Been Down This Yellow-Brick Road Before

First Blood

Pedal to the Metal Tour

Tom Zoellner

American Indian Film Celebration

The Symbol Life

Pondering eternity and duct tape in Tempe

Meet the Filmmaker: Jenny Pond

DIY Hard with a Vengeance

Richard Adkerson, the Grasberg mine, Max Jarman and the banality of evil...

Femmy Nazis

The Taloned One ogles white pride wenches, welcomes an infamous mining titan to town, and takes another swipe at illegal-immigrant-bashing car king Rusty Childress

Romancing the Stone

Diamonds aren't the world's best trend

Paper Pusher

The message is the medium

Just Say No

A natural drug with an unnatural effect: 5-MeO-DMT.

Forest Grump

A prominent Southwestern environmental group is at the center of a squirrelly federal lawsuit

Boomerang Bust

San Manuel is finding out what happens when an Australian company buys the local copper mine and lays off half the town

Shafted Again

Mining industry strikes another rich vein in the Legislature

Top contributors to these key state officials . . .

Flashes

Cow Punchers

Ranching takes a blow in the courts, an uppercut to the bottom line and a jab in the marketplace

Pining for Justice

Once again, a legal effort aims to compel the Forest Service to follow its own logging rules

Letters

Owl See You in Court

From spikedaces to spotted owls, the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity has logged the legal system and rewritten the book on environmental activism

Getting Onto Dodge

State official harshly criticizes Phelps Dodge environmental record; mining firm's development delayed

Miner Regulations

Arizona copper kings are enthusiastic about a pending mine-reclamation law--because they wrote it

From Dust to ... Golf?

Phelps Dodge wants to turn a dusty plain of toxic mine tailings into what it says is an environment-friendly golf course near the Verde River. No one can be sure whether the unprecedented plan will work. But that hasn't stopped anyone from fighting abo

MINES AND MEN

DIGGING AT GRANITE MOUNTAIN AND COPPER BASIN WOULD SCAR THE FACE OF PRESCOTT. PLANS HAVE BEEN STOPPED, BUT ONLY FOR A WHILE.

Flashes

GARDENING BACK TO WILDERNESSBOTH ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND LOGGERS EMBRACE WALLY COVINGTON'S RESEARCH--BUT DO THEY SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES?

SHORT-SHEETEDSTATE SCRAMBLES TO KEEP ITS PAPER-PUSHERS IN BUSINESS

DEATH OF AN ECO WARRIOR

LEROY JACKSON TRANSFORMED HIMSELF FROM A PHOENIX STREET WINO INTO A CHARISMATIC NAVAJO ENVIRONMENTALIST. HIS FRIENDS THINK HE WAS MURDERED FOR HIS EFFORTS.

GOV'S FOREST MANAGEMENT MANTRA: TIMBER!FIFE'S PRICEY SUMMIT IS A ONE-SIDED AFFAIR

THE PRODIGAL SONWHEN YOU'RE CHAIRMAN OF GAME AND FISH AND YOUR FAMILY IS IN THE TIMBER BUSINESS THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL

TREES FALL, CHIPS FLYHOW MUCH WOOD DID THE WOOD COMPANY CUT ON THE NORTH KAIBAB?

MINE SHAFTEDTHE FOLKS IN MORRISTOWN MAY BE GETTING A NOT-SO-GRAND CANYON

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

THE HOHOKAM FREEWAY PUT GENE GABRIELLI ON THE ROAD TO RUIN: A CAUTIONARY TALE ON HOW A RECYCLING ENVIRONMENTALIST GOT CROSSWAYS WITH THE STATE OF ARIZONA AND ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST CHEMICAL COMPANIES.