Is It Just Me? Hunting and Jeeps in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve
Two articles appeared in the Scottsdale Republic recently, which–taken together–illustrate a fundamental contradiction between the stated purposes of city government and its actions. The first announced Friday that the Arizona Department of Game and Fish has determined with a single survey that large mammal populations in Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve are stable, and reaffirmed Scottsdale […]
McDowell Sonoran Preserve or Park?
This letter to the editor from McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commissioner Fred Klein was published in the Republic last week. Questionable changes make preserve seem more like a park About 20 years ago, when Scottsdale was beginning to acquire an open-space area and mulling how to run it, it had a number of examples near at […]