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  • Rangemaster Ron Fielder works with Randy Rosencrans in the live Firebox simulator during the 5-day 260 Shotgun course at Gunsite Academy.  From the Gunsite course description: Effective out to and beyond 100 yards, the defensive shotgun’s flexibility and versatility demands a special set of manipulation skills, making it a “thinking person’s” weapons system.  When it comes to constitutional guarantees, Second Amendment champions see firearm ownership as “the first right” because it empowers citizens to defend all other rights.  And, in Arizona, that sense of self-reliance is particularly strong.
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  • A .22 caliber bullet traveling at 1167 feet per second slices through a Arizona state flag card.  A 30,000 volt flash unit and chronometer custom built by Jasper Nance measures the speed of the bullet and calculates how long it will take to reach the target at a preset distance, the high speed flash then fires freezing the bullet. Cameras are setup on tripods, the shutters are opened for 13-seconds and the photographers quickly move to safety behind the firing line.  The weapon is fired and Nance’s equipment does the rest. The photos were taken at night.
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  • Arizona has long been known as one of the most gun-friendly states in the union, with a reputation as a place where the right to keep and bear arms is not only respected but celebrated. And where guns are concerned, it has been getting even friendlier over the past few years as conservative legislators pursue an agenda that pushes new boundaries for gun-owner rights. Marshal Hartford, a.k.a. Warren Waite on the range at the Tombstone Livery Stable during the 4th Annual High Noon shooting event.  Single Action Shooting Society members adopt a shooting alias appropriate to a character or profession of the late 19th century and are required to compete with firearms typical of the Old West.  The competition is timed.  Shooters test their skills against steel targets set-up within a course of 12 stages.
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  • Desert tortoise #634, a 30 to 40 year-old female, was found while searching for juvenile tortoises in the Tonto National Forest. Arizona Game and Fish Turtles Project Coordinator Cristina Jones and Wildlife Specialist Audrey Jones are conducting the desert tortoise survey.  One of the greatest risks to desert species is fragmented habitat, when cities, canals, fences, freeways, even a dirt road in the forest chop up landscape that once let indigenous species roam freely in search of the sparse food and water sources. "There are eight times as many road miles in national forests as on the interstate freeway system," said Matt Skroch, executive director of the Arizona Wilderness Coalition. "A lot of them might be dirt, but just a de-vegetated strip can act as a barrier."
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  • Gary Kohler takes aim at a target 200 yards out during the Long Range Rifle course at Gunsite Academy.  “There's different view of guns out here than there is back East,” said Bob Corbin, a former Arizona attorney general and Maricopa County attorney who served as National Rifle Association president in the early 1990s. “People who are here or come from the East are a different breed. Many are coming out to start a new life. It takes courage to do that, and a lot of people don't have it. They'd rather stay home and live with mother. Arizonans, I think, are different. We're more for freedom.”
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  • Show attendees shop for handguns at the Western Collectibles & Firearms Gun Show held in Tim's Toyota Center. Guns are big business in Arizona, which has more than 1,200 federally licensed firearm dealers that sell more than 200,000 guns a year and is on track to set a gun-sales record this year. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives licenses more than 100 Arizona-based makers of guns and gun parts that employ more than 1,000 people.
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  • Tate Heinzerling, a Black and Associates Auctioneers Inc. ringman, spots a bid during the Western Americana High Noon's 21th Anniversary Auction.  The 45 Eley Colt Single Action Army sold for $3,000.00.  When the Colt Single Action Army revolver officially became Arizona's state gun on April 28, it was more than just a symbolic nod to the past.  State lawmakers who promoted and passed the measure made it clear that firearms are a part of the contemporary Arizona lifestyle, not to mention the state's politics and economy, as well as its legends and lore.
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  • About 72 California condors, once wiped out in Arizona, now nest near the Grand Canyon and Vermilion Cliffs, few endangered species have required the attention and care the condors have. So far, the reintroduction program has proved successful. California Condor #70, an eight year-old male, soars near Navajo Bridge. "The recent historical range is not always the best place," said Chris Parish, California condor project director for the non-profit Peregrine Fund. "In some cases, the recent historic range is where they went extinct." Condors have adapted to the canyons and cliffs of northwestern Arizona and may never fly across the distances they once did, but Parish said recovery of a species doesn't necessarily mean restoring the past. "What we should be concerned with is whether we leave the environment in a way that these species can survive in the future," he said. "It's true extinction is part of the natural process, but it's becoming clear we played a role in the condors' decline. I'm not one to say we have to make it like it was, but we should make it like we want it in the future."
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  • Kara Honanie, Watson and Sarah Honanie’s daughter, rubs corn meal on the face of a Nuvatukya’ovi Sinom Dance Group member before they dance in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl Parade.  Kara’s dance group has traveled as far as New York City to perform. The Honanies opened the doors of their Hotevilla home and allowed photographs to be made only of them and their extended family.  What resulted is a rare inside look at one of the few remaining families living the traditional lifestyle on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona.
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  • Portrait of irrigator Raul Rodriquez in a Waymon Farms fennel field.  The field is located south of Somerton, Arizona.
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  • Tribal fisheries biologist Tim Gatewood (left), tribal fisheries tech Matt Rustin (center) and volunteer Fernando Nosie electro-fish Ord Creek while surveying the Apache trout population on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The Apache trout, the state fish and one of two trout native to Arizona (the Gila is the other), have recovered enough to warrant downgrading from endangered species to threatened and could soon become the first fish ever removed from the list without going extinct.
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  • Ana Cerro logs in her data after counting lesser long-nosed bats (endangered) as they exit an abandoned mine on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. Lesser long-nosed bats are migratory and spend their winters in Mexico, returning to Arizona as early as the second week in April. Nectar and pollen from the flowers of saguaro and organ pipe cactus are the core of the bat's diet in early summer. Later in the summer, as they move up in elevation, they feed on agave. Biologists and researchers working with species like bats, bees and snakes often struggle for resources and attention. Once a species is listed under the Endangered Species Act, those resources are more readily available, but by then, the species is also in deeper trouble.
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  • A Sonoran pronghorn, in the captive-breeding program, roams the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. In 2002, there were only about 21 Sonoran pronghorn left in the United States. Today, there are 76 animals in the captive-breeding program, of which 31 are fawns born in the spring of 2010. Another 75 to 100 live in the wild on the refuge. "It's not like there's a book," said Larry Voyles, director of the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. "The Sonoran pronghorn was for many years managed benignly because the landscape was generally unavailable to people."
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  • Arizona is losing its native wildlife. Some species no longer live here. Some are nearly gone. Some species exist here only because of near-heroic measures that turn government agencies, non-profit groups and private citizens into perpetual animal keepers and habitat guardians. For some, even those efforts won't be enough. Of the thousands of wildlife species native to Arizona, 27 are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act as endangered, which means they are at immediate risk of extinction and need help to survive. Another 13 species are listed as threatened, which means they are likely to become endangered without protection. And 17 more are candidates for protected status. Chiricahua Leopard Frog tadpoles hatch out of their egg mass in a tank at the Phoenix Zoo's conservation center. Leopard Frog habitat is monitored for breeding and spawning activity, once an egg mass is found, it is transported to the zoo where they are placed in a tank to hatch. The tadpoles are then raised by zoo staff and released back into the wild.
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  • John Benninger uses maps to explain why Pine, Arizona has water shortages, especially during the summer months, when summer homes are full.
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  • Employees pick up shotgun shells on the Shotquad.  Gunsite Academy is the world’s oldest and largest firearms training facility.
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  • C.J. Siegfried, 10, went hunting for his first time at the Marvin Robbins Memorial Juniors Turkey Hunting Camp held at Camp Raymond Boy Scout Camp.  The camp was sponsored by the Mingus Mountain Longbeards.
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  • Juliana Rodriguez fires her phaser at a base station during a match at Stratum Laser Tag.  Over 150 kids from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley's Compadre Branch played with the lasers on a recent field trip.
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  • Watson Honanie cuts wood for the winter.  The Honanies use wood and coal to heat their home and solar power and a gas generator to run the lights.
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  • Tiffany Webb has makeup applied by artist Caityn Vaughn at Canyon Lake.  Webb was photographed holding an FN M240B machine gun for the 2012 Coleman Tyler LLC calendar.
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  • University Medical Center nurses, who didn't want to be identified, visit a makeshift memorial for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of the Jan. 8 mass shooting.  President Barack Obama attended, the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" later the same day.  Many struggle to understand the lenient attitudes toward guns in the Grand Canyon State, after the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and wounded 13, including Giffords.  Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old man accused of committing the crimes with a Glock 9 mm with an extended magazine, has been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
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  • Tiah Honanie carries piki during her engagement procession in Hotevilla.  The Honanie’s presented baked goods to the groom’s family, after being accepted, the couple is considered engaged.
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  • A Cliff Swallows returns to its mud nest attached to the underside of a pedestrian bridge on the Western Canal in Tempe.
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  • “ We have six different colors of corn. We have the yellow, blue, red, white, coma, which is a purple and sweet corn.  Blue and white corn are the most important.“  Watson said.  “White corn is used for making hominy stew.  We make stew for all the ceremonials, to bring all the people together.”
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  • Watson stands a prayer feather ravaged by winter storms.  The Hopis are dry farmers, they don’t irrigate, and they rely on the winter snows and summer monsoons to supply adequate moisture for their crops.
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  • After being up all night for Hotevilla’s Basket Dance, Sarah and her granddaughter, Serena Honanie eat hominy stew for breakfast.  The Basket Dance is an annual Hopi tradition celebrating the end of harvest.  “Corn is very important, my family belongs to the corn clan, all the way back to our grandmothers, we belong to the corn and water.  When I was growing up, I grew up to corn,” said Sarah Honanie.
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  • The Harvest Moon sets behind the Honanie home on Third Mesa.
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  • The sun set hours ago, Sarah sits by herself, surrounded by boxes, sifting grounded sweet corn meal for qomi.  Sarah and her family have been working for months or years if you count when the corn used for the engagement ceremony was planted.  Sarah will be the first one up tomorrow, hours before the sunrises, for last minute problems.
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  • Shawna Kyasyousia, a relative the Honanie’s have raised, falls asleep after a long day.  Shawna spent the day at a Basket Dance in Shongopovi & the evening trick-or-treating in Hotevilla.
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  • Tiah Honanie’s clan relatives; her sisters, her aunties and her grandmothers make qomi for her engagement procession.  Qomi is ground sweet corn, sugar and water.
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  • Sabrina Kyasyousia eats watermelon while taking a break from picking blue corn.  Corn is still harvested by hand.  Last years corn harvest was excellent, the family picked seven truckloads of blue corn and four truckloads of white corn.
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  • September is spent chasing the crows from the fields.  Today, Leland Dennis, Program Coordinator for the Hopi Natwani Coalition, a project of the Hopi Foundation, estimates there are eighty families continuously practicing farming.  Twenty-five years ago, Dennis puts that number at 150 to 170.
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  • CPS caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen checks the swelling on the head of a 3-month-old girl at a west Phoenix hospital. The baby had three skull fractures. None of the children she sees as part of her job deserve what happens to them, LeVeen says. .
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  • A baby reaches out to Child Protective Services caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen.  The 8-month-old baby was later removed from her parents.  .Everyday, caseworkers like LeVeen hear horrors from the mouths of children.
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  • Ray Tanner (left) and his ranch hands brand calves on his Cross V Ranch. The Cross V is a safe haven for the Chiricahua Leopard Frog. The frogs were listed as threatened in 2002 under the Endangered Species Act, which meant Turner's pastures could be subject to limits on use and penalties if frogs died. He signed an agreement to set aside several small areas for frog habitat; in return, he wouldn't be cited if his operations accidentally killed a frog.
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  • Lake Powell's Wahweap Marina at sunset.  Lake Powell sits at 48 percent of capacity, 101 feet below its full elevation of 3,700 feet above sea level
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  • City of Gilbert Water Conservation Specialist Lisa Hemphill (right) helps Charles Buerger set his irrigation controller.
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  • The All-American Canal runs through the Imperial Sand Dunes west of Yuma on its way to the Imperial Valley.
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  • Frank Toupal, April Howard, Jeffery McFadden and Daniel Juan observe a flycatcher during the 17th Annual Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Survey Training Workshop field trip held on the lower San Pedro River near Dudleyville. The bird was listed as endangered in 1995 as its riparian homes fell victim to growth and overused rivers. The Wildlife Service designated critical habitat areas for the bird and created a recovery plan, and in 2004, agency scientists proposed designating about 376,000 acres of habitat for the flycatcher.
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  • Watson uses corn meal during an autumn blessing in his fields.  Watson gives thanks for their harvest and prays for a wet winter. “In Hopi we only pray for good longevity, good long life, and a healthy one also.  That is what we pray for.  We also pray a lot for rain, for without water nothing will exist. Plants grow with water, and we have to have water to live on.  Its just that.... good living, prosperity, good health, longevity, no sickness.... that’s just the Hopi way,” Watson said.
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  • Water runs into a recharge basin at the The New River-Agua Fria River Underground Storage Project (NAUSP).
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  • A 10-year-old boy with a passion for bike riding shows CPS caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen marks from a recent spill. Someone had called in a report that the boy was being sexually abused. Turns out, the report was fake, part of an ongoing custody dispute. .
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  • After planting Cottonwood seedlings, Eric Lomahaptewa sprays Marc Poleyestewa with the pressure driller they used to bore the planting holes into the ground.
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  • Round Valley rancher Sam Udall readies for a days work on the X-Diamond Ranch with owner, Wink Crigler.  Crigler’s X Diamond Ranch is one of several operations that are incorporating river ecology and watershed management into their work along the Little Colorado.  You need water to ranch and if you want to keep the water around, you have to be careful the way you ranch.
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  • Samuel Adams Jr. enjoys a late afternoon swim in the Verde River. It was the first time he had ever been camping with his dad.
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  • Las Vegas Valley Water District Conservation Aide Dennis Gegen videos water runoff from sprinklers at an apartment complex in Las Vegas.
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  • Child Protective Services caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen works out a safety plan with the mother of an 8-month-old baby who had been living in a car and holding the infant while panhandling at night. The mother agreed to leave the child with a friend instead of having in the car or out on the street.  .
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  • Under the watchful eye of his mom, Anakin Everhart plays with the water while the tub is being filled for his nightly bath.
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  • Child Protective Services caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen brings an 8-month-old baby girl to a foster home in the East Valley after removing the child from her parents who were homeless and using the child to pandhandle. The baby was thin and filthy..
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  • Family and friends attending the engagement ceremony feasted on hominy stew.
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  • Watson Honanie and Lester Honavema plant blue corn in their sandy desert fields located eight miles southwest of Hotevilla.  The Hopi men clear, plant and harvest the fields while the Hopi women are responsible for the seeds and harvest products.
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  • Kevin Hauser removes a rock from his sweet cornfield in Camp Verde.  Hauser farms about 1,200 acres along the Verde, on parcels strung out from Camp Verde all the way to Chino Valley.  He relies heavily on the river, taking water from the Eureka Ditch, one of the oldest irrigation systems still operating.  He has followed the arguments about drilling wells along the Verde and about habitat.  “A lot of people feel helpless about what to do,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s Prescott or a construction company pumping water ahead of you. You’ve always gotta be watching upstream.”
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  • Child Protective Services caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen decided to remove an 8-month-old baby from her parents after the couple violated their agreed upon safety plan, bolting with the child, again leaving her in the car and having her out at night while they panhandled.  A Phoenix Police officer went with Abraham-LeVeen to take the child.  .
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  • A visitor hikes along the shore of Lake Powell just before Glen Canyon Dam.  The water level on Lake Powell is down over 100 vertical feet and this entire area would be under water if the lake were at its high level.
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  • Eddie Hunter opens the valve on his 500-gallon truck mounted water tank so he can pump it into his 5,000-gallon storage tank at his home outside of Ash Fork.  Playing in the tree while Hunter transfers the water is his daughter, Sierra.
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  • Synlawn employee Jaime Moreno installs turf in the backyard of Glendale resident E. Normand Blanchette.
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  • Germaine Abraham-LeVeen returns to the office late one night to find the gate locked.
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  • In the darkened apartment of mother of four who regularly uses methamphetamine, CPS caseworker Germaine Abraham-LeVeen interviews a little boy about whether he's safe and getting enough to eat..
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  • Sustainability is a movement that’s changing the way people think about the planet.  It’s changing the way people live.  And it’s happening all across Arizona.  Sustainability is a way of using Earth's resources today in a way that protects them for the next generation. It’s a movement of the people.  Few places in Arizona illustrate the principles of sustainability like the Quarter Circle U Ranch outside Apache Junction, where energy, land and water are used in a way that protects them for the next generation.  The ranch’s collection of solar panels and 30 golf-cart batteries, which soak up electricity from the panels, power everything at the ranch, even the air-conditioning. .
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  • Mike Reyes, veteran’s burial, National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona
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  • Doug Duncan, a fisheries biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, checks his net for a Gila topminnow.  After identifying one Duncan commented, “I haven’t heard of topminnow being here (north of San Lazaro, Sonora) since 1997.”  The Gila topminnow, that is now endangered, was once one of the most common native Arizona fish.
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  • Six wind turbines have been placed on Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability building on the Tempe campus. Each turbine produces enough electricity to power about six computers over 24 hours. "That may not seem like a whole lot of electricity, but the turbines are models of what can be done to reduce energy costs," institute spokeswoman Lauren Kuby says..
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  • Students of Arizona State University Professor Thanassis Rikakis have created a game that brings leaders together to discuss water sustainability. The game is played in a darkened studio, and participants assume roles of water providers, regulators and users. They move, physically, to start the game. The point is to force decision-makers to abandon their old ideas and see problems from a new perspective...
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  • Monsoon, Arizona/Mexico border
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  • Vehicle emissions are responsible for about 39 percent of the greenhouse gases in Arizona's air and contribute heavily to concentrations of urban ozone and particulates. Apache Junction resident Joe Yarina cut his carbon footprint when he purchased a Smart car, which is made from recycled and recyclable materials. It gets about 50 miles per gallon and emits less than one-third of the carbon dioxide of a typical car..
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  • Workers harvest head lettuce in a field at Desert Premium Farms, January 28, 2022, east of Yuma, Arizona.
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  • Yeou-Leun Ni, Vocational & Life Skills Academy Saturday night dance, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • Immigration protest, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • Marie Lehi, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe funeral, Tuba City, Arizona
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  • A lettuce field at Desert Premium Farms, January 28, 2022, east of Yuma, Arizona. The field was harvested in mid-March. The farm grows lettuce and other vegetables in winter, wheat in spring, melons in fall and spring, and durum wheat and cotton in spring and summer.
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  • Cousins Gina and Tina Martinez, Quinceanera, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • Roundup, Seligman, Arizona
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  • Rock vendor Leonard Kopcinski, Quartzsite, Arizona
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  • Navy sailor Rex Harvey, Peyote Ceremony, Tsaile, Arizona
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  • Leonard and Nykole Britton, lead-paint poisoning, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • Apache Mountain Spirit dancers, Point of Pines, Arizona
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  • Rebecca David, autistic child, Chandler, Arizona
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  • Hualapai guide Don Havatone, Grand Canyon West, Arizona
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  • Border Rescue, Sells, Arizona
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  • Agua Dulce Creek, at headwaters of the San Pedro River, Sonora, Mexico. The lessons of Rancho Los Fresnos and of other projects along the San Pedro are lessons that can translate to most any desert river system. Protect the watershed, focus on doable projects, involve land owners and users, preserve wildlife habitat and, wherever possible, find a way to keep at least a little water.
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  • Like many businesses that adopt sustainable practices, Hickman's Eggs did so first because the changes were financially sound. The family started recycling the water used to wash eggs about five years ago, funneling it into an onsite compost operation. That immediately saved the business as much as 250,000 gallons of water a month.
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  • Americans use nearly 400 billion plastic shopping bags a year, and many wind up flying down highways and across fields. Cattle, horses and deer can ingest them and choke. Meanwhile, the bags decompose very slowly, degrading into smaller bits of chemical elements..
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  • A portrait of Greg Peterson, the Urban Farmer, in his backyard shower. The water is heated by solar panels and Peterson uses environmental-safe soap and shampoo products so the grey water can be used to water his gardens. Since purchasing his home in 1989, Peterson has transformed his third of an acre residential landscape into an edible yard produces over a ton of food per year...
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  • Hopi farmers have long practiced the principles of sustainability: To live off the land means to live with the land. They grow beans and corn, mostly, coaxing crops from hostile earth with some of the same ceremonies and planting calendars that have served them for centuries. The Hopi try not to plant more than the land can sustain, more than they can grow and eat. They save their best seeds from the previous harvest to plant the following spring. They also store a surplus of these seeds to guard against a catastrophic crop failure...
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  • The Colorado River from Desert View at Grand Canyon National Park on Aug. 18, 2022. Declining water levels in Lake Powell threaten the river’s flow through this prized natural wonder.
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  • Sheepherder Shone Holiday, Oljeto, Utah
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  • Shorty family butchering a sheep, Navajo Reservation
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  • The Dugi family work cattle on their ranch at Ward's Terrace.  Tribal officials acknowledge they may never provide full running water to every home. The reservation is just too big, the ancestral lands too widely spread. A more practical goal is ensuring that water haulers can find clean sources within shorter distances.
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  • Brian Shorty washes at the Red Lake windmill trough while hauling water for his grandfather’s sheep.  The hose is connected to and filling Shorty’s trailer mounted water tank..
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  • The Dugi family (from right: Brian, Adam and Renaldo) play while waiting for 55-gallon drum to fill at the Grey Mountain water station.  Dugi fills his drums 3 to 4 times a week to water his livestock and makes the 70 mile round trip to Flagstaff weekly for their drinking water. .
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  • Sharon Williams holds a family photo of her parents, Mark and Annie Tsosie surrounded by their children, who were all raised without running water. “People in Phoenix have it made. They have water for grass, they can step in a shower any time they want, they never have to wonder if they have water,” said Williams.  “If they had to come up here and live like us for a day,” she said, with only a trace of taunting in her voice, “they wouldn't make it.”.
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  • Monument Valley draws tourists from around the world for its tours of the magnificent rock formations, but what brings the locals is the well at the Seventh Day Adventist mission. The well is a rarity, a reliable and clean source of water, clean enough that haulers will pass by other wells and make longer trips to fill up.  Lines form early each day, including the Elvis Saltwater and his children, Fidel and Javier, who wait for their 425-gallon tank to fill.
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  • In the bathroom of the Whitehair home, Greyhatt fills bucket after bucket with water used for daily grooming.  Homes are built with modern conveniences in hopes that one day they will have running water.  The Bureau of Reclamation estimated that the total economic cost to haul water on the reservation is about $113 per 1,000 gallons.  A Phoenix homeowner pays about $5 a month for as much as 7,480 gallons.  “We're talking about things a lot of people take for granted,” said Ray Benally, director of the tribe's water resources department. “It's about our quality of life. The lack of clean, potable water has an effect on people's health.”
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  • Raymond Knight works in the Grand Canyon during the week, helping with mule trains carrying supplies. On weekends, he hooks a trailer to his pick-up and carries water to family and friends. On one recent weekend, he ferried the tank back and forth between a ranch, where people had gathered to brand cattle.  “They use it up pretty fast,” he said. . Water haulers haul because the Navajo Nation lacks adequate, clean water and the infrastructure to deliver it. The reservation lies between three major rivers — the San Juan, the Colorado and the Little Colorado — but the tribe still relies mostly on groundwater. Drilling a well is easier and cheaper than building a pipeline.  Not all the wells produce usable water. Many dry up in a drought. Windmills break down, often for weeks at a time. As a result it's not uncommon for people to drive 30 miles or more to find water.
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  • Jonathan Greyhatt and 70,000 other Navajos haul water daily or weekly to meet their basic needs. The Navajo Nation faces an almost unfathomable water crisis, one that has persisted so long; that it has wormed its way into the routines of life on the nation's largest Indian reservation. Easing the crisis will require decades of work, billions of dollars and the patience to cut through the politics of Western water.
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  • Autumn Tsosie is bathed by her mom, Freida Pete while visiting the Tsosie Coyote Canyon home, a summer gathering spot for extended family.  Outside, five other grandchildren, lineup to take turns at the basin. Shampoo, rinse, and no repeat. Same basin of water. If it holds up long enough, it'll be used to wash hands.  “We know how to conserve, we know how to get by with less,” said Sharon Williams.
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  • Ethel Whitehair ran out of water again over the weekend, she emptied every bucket and pot, drained the plastic barrels lined up outside her front door.  The community well at the chapter house was closed until Monday. Water from another well at a nearby windmill could supply the sheep, but it was untreated and made Whitehair's skin itch. And so Whitehair waited as she had so often during her 87 years on the Navajo Reservation, waited for someone to bring her water.  “She stays by herself for long stretches of time and then we have to come and haul the water” said Amy Yazzie, Whitehair's daughter.
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  • Sheep Camp.  Bodaway, Arizona.
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  • Sign at Window Rock, Arizona.
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  • Desiree Taliman (6) and a friend.  Greasewood, Arizona.
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