Cinco, an endangered jaguar, was spotted again in trail camera footage showing him roaming through Arizona’s remote Sky Islands. 🐆
Video provided by The Center of Biological Diversity 🎥
A jaguar known as Cinco was spotted roaming Arizona’s Sky Islands again, caught on a trail cam. Cat experts say Cinco seems to have adopted the area as home territory. Read the whole story at environment.azcentral.com
The Hazen Fire near Buckeye has burned 992 acres and is 10% contained. Here’s the latest from Republic reporter Joan Meiners.
Full details at the link in bio. 🔗
Story and video by: Joan Meiners/The Republic 🎥
Cedar, a Mexican gray wolf, crossed into Mexico through a gap in the Trump border wall, but those openings may close soon.
The 3-year-old wolf traveled from New Mexico’s Black Range Mountains and veered south toward the “bootheel,” according to Darren Vaughan, communications director for the state’s game and fish department.
What to know at the link in bio. 🔗
Written by: Sarah Henry ✍️ | Photos by: Mark Henle/The Republic 📸
A brush fire in metro Phoenix is 0% contained. It’s now burning away from State Route 85, which was closed earlier.
What to know at the link in bio.
Video provided by Arizona Department of Public Safety 🎥
Years ago, when I was a water reporter in southern Utah for @spectrumnews , I would get an email about once a month from a reader claiming to have solved the West’s water crisis with one genius idea: Why don’t we just build a massive pipeline to bring water from the Mississippi River to the #ColoradoRiver to address both flooding in the East and #drought in the West?
It’s a question that resurfaces as reliably as the bodies in Lake Mead every time tensions ratchet up on #westernwater supplies. And now — with the Bureau of Reclamation taking over some management decisions where western states couldn’t agree, and in a year with almost no snowpack to help boost flows as spring turns to summer — is certainly one of those times.
The concept seems simple enough. China is even doing something similar with their South-North Water Transfer Project. But there are a multitude of water-tight reasons this is not our best option. I outline them in my story now online and in today’s print edition of The Arizona Republic | @azcentral , and as other western water reporters have done before me.
The sizable obstacles span economic, ecological, legal, practical and other complications that could land us in a worse environmental, financial and resource distribution situation than the one we’re in now on the Colorado River.
I think it’s really interesting how this idea has been such a false but undying zombie climate solution. Unfortunately, learning to live within our means (i.e., conservation) is less fun but almost always the better answer. Story link in bio. :)
✨ Bonus photos at the end are of a story I reported in 2021 about a survey we conducted on support for another major water pipeline (this one *from* the Colorado River at the depleted #LakePowell above #GlenCanyonDam), and shots from a community event @spectrumnews held in St. George to discuss water issues with locals.
That ~$2B pipeline project from Lake Powell was full-steam ahead when I joined the paper in St. George in 2020 and found that almost nobody was really writing or asking questions about it. By the time I left that paper for Arizona, that unpopular and costly project was basically dead in the water.
With help from the White House, a shuttered copper smelter in Hayden could reopen and boost the economy of the "ghost town."
Here's what's happening at the link in bio. 🔗
Written by: Sarah Henry ✍️ | Photo by: Sarah Henry/The Republic 📸
The Arizona Trail now ends in caution tape. The Republic’s Joan Meiners reports from southern Arizona, where new border wall construction is blocking access.
Story and video by: Joan Meiners 🎥
La Niña brought us a warm winter and a hot spring, so what would a 'super' El Niño mean?
“Because there's a higher probability that this could be a strong to very strong El Niño, that could increase the probabilities that we could see some active weather this upcoming winter."
What to know at the link in bio. 🔗
Written by: Sarah Henry ✍️ | Photos by: Rob Schumacher/The Republic and Arizona Department of Transportation 📸
Arizona farmers are turning to agave, a drought-tolerant crop, to tap into a booming spirits market. Here’s how it could open doors for a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Learn more at the link in bio. 🔗
Written by: Clara Migoya ✍️ | Photos by: Patrick Breen/The Republic 📸
Taking over federal lands could cost Arizona hundreds of millions each year, a new study says, as the state would take on wildfire costs and lose key federal funding.
Here's what to know at the link in bio. 🔗
Written by: Shi En Kim ✍️ | Photos by: John Leos and Mark Henle/The Republic 📸
Every spring, common black hawks return to the Santa Cruz River near Tubac in southern Arizona. Even during drought years, the hawks are drawn by the riverside cottonwood trees. The Republic’a Shi En Kim made her own trip to the river and writes about it. Read her story at environment.azcentral.com
