Arizona’s new wave of activists
Jun 01, 2020
3 minutes
BY RUXANDRA GUIDI
DRESSED IN MULTI-POCKETED beige vests and big hats, a group of elderly tourists gathered on a recent bright spring day at the edge of the Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve in southern Arizona. Behind them, a dry-erase board listed the birds they’d seen so far that day: golden crown sparrows, vermilion flycatchers, violet-crowned hummingbirds.
This 873-acre preserve, which is owned by The Nature Conservancy, takes up about 60% of the land in the town of Patagonia, a popular springtime destination for bird-watchers
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