Arizona and the Southwest have a lot of open space, unspoiled nature, increasing development pressure, and a corresponding need for special environmental protection. The Nature Conservancy has a whole website devoted to the “ Last Great Places in the world”. One, the San Pedro River, is in southern Arizona. The interior of the Colorado Plateau, an area spreading out from the Four Corners region that includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, has the world’s most unique concentration of National Parks, Forests, Monuments, and recreation areas. I could continue and perhaps sound like a “the West is the Best” promoters, however many of the environmental groups in this section are not strictly focused on the southwest and pertain to the entire United States and ultimately the whole world we live in. Every part affects the whole. |
