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Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’
The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition
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The US government has neglected Native agriculture systems, so Indigenous communities are organizing their own food hubs
On the Hopi reservation in the high desert of northern Arizona, construction is underway. A dilapidated auto garage is being converted into a fully-equipped kitchen, food storage areas, dining room and an attached greenhouse.
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‘I was thrilled and shocked’: images raise hopes of return of wild jaguars to the US
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‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots
On a warm day in April, Twila Cassadore piloted her pickup truck toward the mountains on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona to scout for wild edible plants.
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‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action
Near downtown Tucson, Arizona, is Dunbar Spring, a neighborhood unlike any other in the city. The unpaved sidewalks are lined with native, food-bearing trees and shrubs fed by rainwater diverted from city streets.
The Guardian
April 18, 2022
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries.