Hydrologist Holly Richter explains local water issues
Back to Southern Arizona water related issues.....I saw this interview in the Sierra Vista Herald Tribune. It is reprinted in its entirety with a link to the article at the end. Holly Richter is a well-respected hydrologist and, much like I have found the rest of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to be, pretty apolitical. Thus, I think she deals in facts and reality as opposed to trying to advance a particular agenda as it pertains to water and related issues. Worth the read. I si
Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape Restoration Project continues to make strides
This is an interesting article about Fort Huachuca, which is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona (southeast of Tucson). I saw it in the Sierra Vista Herald Tribune. I took an interest in it for a couple of reasons. One is because I was working at BLM in 2015 when Fort Huachuca was designated a Sentinel Landscape in 2015. The project that I was managing involved lands involved with this program. The other reason was because of my previous background in consulting where I did a go
It's one of Arizona's most precious rivers. Hundreds of new wells may leave it running dry
This is a great article by the Arizona Republic on the San Pedro River and the many challenges to its existence it faces. I've published links to other similar, articles previously. It serves to highlight just how tenuous the San Pedro's existence really is and the effect over-development has on it. This piece has links to previous pieces published in the Arizona Republic on water issues in Cochise County. Personally I think it's laughable that anyone can think the Villages a
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Clean Water Act § 404 Assumption
In 2018, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) began a collaborative stakeholder process to draft a roadmap for Arizona to assume the Clean Water Act Section 404 Permitting program. Almost 500 people engaged by attending stakeholder meetings, participating in work groups and providing over 2,100 comments. I had the privilege to be a member of the Permit Process technical working group (TWG). Our TWG was focused on preparation of recommendations for ADEQ's ass
