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Volunteers endure grueling project to remove pests smothering river: 'Controlling invasive ... species is rarely a one-time event'

Thanks to Friends of the Verde River, a nonprofit organization based in Arizona, a critical riparian habitat has the chance ...
AZ Central

Why river advocates say Arizona's upper Verde should earn 'Wild and Scenic' protections

From a few thousand feet in the air, the upper Verde River carves a stark contrast into the desert surrounding it. Its verdant green ribbon twists through an otherwise arid, rocky landscape. Leafy ...
Center for Biological Diversity

VERDE RIVER MINI-SERIES

Part 1: The Center's Joanne Oellers takes “The Water's Edge” on an enlightening tour of the Verde River ecosystem in the first segment of a multi-part series. Part 2: “Drop by Drop” features Tom ...
AZ Central

Green is the Verde: How an Arizona river became a water conservation success story, for now

The cicadas along the river corridor through Camp Verde are deafening, possibly more so on the eastern bank. That’s where a conservation easement has protected the land from a spate of development by ...
Arizona Daily Star

Verde River watershed gets a grade of C+, but that ‘actually is very good’

CAMP VERDE — The Verde River stretches more than 170 miles from north-central Arizona and down through metro Phoenix, bringing life to the landscape, people and wildlife. The river was rated a C+ in ...
Tucson Weekly

San Pedro River, squeezed by growing population, is subject of multiple lawsuits

PHOENIX – The Verde and the San Pedro rivers are the subject of lawsuits filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and other conservation groups. In Part 1 of this series, Cronkite ...