Our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars At Work
World View Enterprises and Kentucky Fried Chicken recently announced plans to send a Kentucky Fried Chicken Zingler sandwich to an…
Articles by David F. Briggs
It’s Time To Revisit Antiquities Act Of 1906
On April 26,2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing Interior Secretary Zinke to review the validity of National Monuments…
What Is The Arizona Daily Star’s Agenda?
How many times have you read a news article about something that has been repeated over and over again as…
Rosemont Copper Poised To Clear Major Regulatory Hurdle
Late Friday afternoon, the U. S. Forest Service announced the long anticipated Record of Decision (ROD) for the Rosemont Copper…
A Case for Reinstating State Funding for the Arizona Geological Survey
On January 23, 2017 the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) posted a YouTube video. below from an aerial drone showing a large,…
White Scar On Western Flank Of The Santa Rita Mountains
If you have lived in the Tucson area for a while, I’m sure many of you have seen the “white…
Center for Biological Diversity’s Poster Child is AWOL
El Jefe, the lone, male jaguar who has been roaming the Santa Rita Mountains for the last several years has…
Critical Habitat – An Ineffective Way to Protect the Jaguar
In 2014 the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 764,000 acres of southeastern Arizona as jaguar critical habitat in…
Arizona Geological Survey: A Small But Important Agency
The Arizona Territory’s Office of the Territorial Geologist was created by the United States Congress in 1888. This agency’s role…
Environmental NGOs’ Efforts to Halt Rosemont Copper Project Threaten El Jefe
Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity recently released a new video of El Jefe, the only known wild…
Gold King Mine – A Case of Russian Roulette with an Inevitable Outcome
On August 5, 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) remediation project resulted in the release of three million gallons of…
Myths and Facts about Mining Reform
The recent release of toxic water from the Gold King mine near Silverton, Colorado has resulted in renewed efforts to…
Anatomy of the Gold King Mine Spill – Was it Caused by an Ice Plug?
On August 5, 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) remediation project resulted in the release of three million gallons of…
Just Saying “No” Is Not A Viable Option
I thank Mr. Featherstone for responding to my opinion piece of July 27th titled “Just Saying No Does Not Solve…