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A water truck taking unauthorized water (one of hundreds of trucks running day and night) from a local well on scraped earth for Blue Owl Capital & Beale Infrastructure’s hyper-scale data centers they are building around Tucson and Marana. Beale bribed local officials under NDAs with zero public input and no environmental oversight. Doctors begged officials to consider the health ramifications here, where the air is already rated ‘F,’ and stop this craziness, not only for saguaros, but for people. But AI is more important than climate change according to our local Tucson politicians.
Marana candidates for Mayor and Council, Greg Johnsen, Sue Ritz, Julie Prince and Jackie McGuire are holding a rally July 11 called Rally For The People. They are running to stop the secrecy and corruption in Marana and to work for the people.
Rosevelt elk grazing with their calves along the forest edge amongst the hemlock and fir trees, purple foxglove, rhody’s and ferns.
A hummingbird nest atop a garden stake.
One of the very last remaining native prairies in the archipelago off the North American Coast is at American Camp, on San Juan Island in Washington, where one lone tree managed to take root from a nearby community of mixed conifer forest. Windswept trees are common here, and though this one looks small and bushy it is likely decades old sitting lone amongst the native prairie flowers and grasses.
Getting ready to extract their 31million gallon/year gift from Arizona, of which they’ll take more because they can, Beale infrastructure is drilling into a dwindling aquifer plus stealing city water for construction.
Two draft horses pull 80yr. old alder trees that have been harvested near the end of their life span to open up the forest canopy. This low-impact logging gives the native evergreen fir, cedar and hemlock more light so they can grow faster and help the forest become multi-storied, vs the clear-cut version of a single story forest we typically see.
Pines reflected in a Japanese garden pond with surface ferns
Project Blue data center land razing made local Tucson news after: 1st stealing water from the city of Tucson and getting caught, 2nd violating their fugitive dust permit. Photo shows bare dirt where they have cleared and scraped hundreds of acres of the Sonoran desert to build a data center planned in secret that no one voted for.
Nurse tree on the forest floor in the Pacific Northwest growing moss, baby hemlock, oxalis
Hummingbird on her new nest atop a 1” garden stake in the New Mexican Redbud.
In Tokyo, Hama-Rikyu Garden reflects nearby skyscrapers in Shiori pond near the famous 300-year old pine.
Only YOU can prevent data centers in Pima County. Join NDDCC for an in person protest on Friday 4/24, at 7am, next to the Pima County fairgrounds where Pima County is breaking ground on Project Blue despite citizens saying “Hell no” to destroying the desert, our air, our water, and our futures.
map of amazon web services
labyrinth in the desert