It could take 100 years and cost more than $24.5 million to save the Mount Graham red squirrel, according to a revised recovery plan for the endangered rodent.
Henry Brean
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Henry joined the Star in 2019 after 25 years at Nevada newspapers. A Tucson native, he graduated from Amphi and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He wrote about the environment for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 16 years.
For Star subscribers: Wildlife officials are planning an emergency rescue for an endangered species that could see its only U.S. habitat wiped out by construction of a second border wall across Southern Arizona.
The endangered Sonoyta pupfish has apparently disappeared from its native range in Mexico, leaving just one remaining wild population at Quitobaquito Springs in southwestern Pima County.
A new effort to identify USS Arizona casualties buried as unknowns in Hawaii is slated to start on Dec. 7, thanks to a civilian-led campaign with a Tucson connection.
Tucsonans have been saluting the flag for the past 250 years, but it hasn't always been the American flag.
Video footage of jaguars in Southern Arizona is extremely rare, but the region's newest cat has shown up on camera multiple times lately.
The Trump administration wants to cancel funding for several NASA science missions with ties to the University of Arizona, including the OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe that’s already flying through space.
A giant fish carved into the ground more than 1,000 years ago was bulldozed during construction of a second border wall in Arizona, according to new images of the damage.
For Star subscribers: As border wall construction accelerates, ecologists are cataloging wildlife on both sides of the international boundary and tracking the movements of rare species like jaguar and ocelot in Southern Arizona.