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Burrowing owls sit together at the Wild at Heart aviary in Cave Creek on March 15, 2022. The owls have since been relocated to artificial burrows near Florence.

Burrowing owls’ Arizona habitat losses have wildlife experts working to relocate them

May 9, 2022 ◇ Eryka Forquer/Cronkite News

As more open Arizona desert and farmland is developed, burrowing owls are being relocated to new sites through the collaboration of raptor conservation group Wild at Heart, environmental organizations and volunteers. Read more»

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To establish a copper mine, Resolution Copper must get congressional approval for swapping parcels elsewhere in Arizona for about 2,400 acres in and around Oak Flat, which lies in the Pinal Mountains just east of Superior.

Congress takes another look at Resolution Copper land swap

Jun 11, 2011 ◇ Matthew Trotter/Cronkite News Service

The House is taking up an Arizona land swap that would trade thousands of acres of federal land in Pinal County for thousands more owned by Resolution Copper throughout southeastern Arizona - the 10th try in the last six years. Read more»


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