Some sheep just aren’t meant to be together. Wild bighorn sheep populations across Arizona are picking up diseases from domesticated sheep and pack goats. As a result, the Arizona Game and Fish Department is working to protect the wild sheep throughout the Sonoran mountain ranges. Mycoplasma pneumonia, sinusitis and other respiratory diseases have been lethal…
Bright green bikes are spreading through the state. Last fall, Phoenix collaborated with CycleHop and Social Bicycles to launch Arizona’s first bike share program, Grid Bike Share. Members reserve one of 500 bikes from among 50 stations planted in downtown Phoenix. Tucson, Tempe and Mesa are not far behind. “The more people we get riding…
Arizona has a new friend in the farming industry, and it’s called organic. Certified organic farms have more than doubled in Arizona in the past seven years, from 63 in 2008 to 140 today, according to the United States Department of Agriculture . “People are only going to produce what they can sell on a…
More and more Arizona youth are taking up soccer as they look up to the stars in the FIFA World Cup and Major League Soccer. The Arizona Youth Soccer Association, a Phoenix-based group that governs youth soccer for the entire state, reported participation by boys and girls spiking from 31,504 in 2013 to 40,078 this past…
Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
