TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue an international mining company to protect critical desert streams and washes in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita ...
Hudbay Minerals Inc. still needs to complete a final feasibility study and find a financial partner before work begins on the $1.3 billion project in the Santa Rita Mountains.
The Santa Rita Mountains are now ground zero for the proposed Rosemont Copper Mine. El Jefe has already lost part of his former home range through significant habitat destruction in the northern Santa ...
The banks below the Santa Rita Mountains once teemed with runoff and springs fed by winter storms and summer monsoon rains, only to be pumped mostly dry by the mid-20 th century. In patches ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Arizona Game and Fish Department will begin aerial surveys of local wildlife on Saturday. AZGFD ...
Situated among the pine-blanketed slopes of the Santa Rita Mountains, this high desert valley is part of the 25,260-acre Mount Wrightson Wilderness and is a popular getaway for Tusconites.