The endangered red squirrel gets a 120-day reprieve, while Congress reconsiders its support of Mount Graham complex |
At the core of this latest flare-up is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
Judge Delays Construction of Arizona Observatory
The endangered red squirrel gets a 120-day reprieve, while Congress reconsiders its support of Mount Graham complex TUCSON -- Two years ago, astronomers and their supporters climbed up Capitol Hill and won approval for a $200 million observatory on an Arizona mountaintop. Many people thought that was the end of a four-year struggle between astronomers and people who opposed observatory development (The Scientist, Nov. 28, 1988, page 5; and Jan. 22, 1990, page 4). But last month, a federal cour
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