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Saving The Desert From Phoenix's Sprawl

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
12 March 2001 - 1:00pm

The nation's newest national monument will preserve a desert ecosystem from Phoenix's rapidly growing urban sprawl just sixty miles away.

"Environmentalists say this monument preserves an entire desert ecosystem from the threat posed by the phenomenally fast-growing Phoenix-Tucson metropolis... Clinton's monument-creation spree was widely seen as an attempt by a controversial president to leave a lasting legacy, and Republican lawmakers - especially those from the West - hinted they would try to undo many of his eleventh-hour environmental acts, including the monuments."

Full Story: Creating A Monument in the Arizona Desert
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 9, 2001
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