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Arizona Common Ground Roundtable : Why are Arizona's Wide Open Spaces Disappearing? |
 | | Arizona has witnessed a human population explosion in recent years, fueled in part by a general prosperity that enables individual families to exercise more choice in their residence. |
 | | However, Arizona is a patchwork quilt of private, state, tribal, and federal lands, and to be large enough, most Arizona ranches must combine the private land of the rancher with grazing land leased from the federal and state governments. |
 | | Early in the formation of Arizona Common Ground Roundtable, participants agreed that attention to both economic and ecological health was necessary to insure the continuing sustainability of native flora and fauna, and the survival of rural communities in Arizona. |
| www.udallcenter.arizona.edu /commonground/demo/text.htm (2840 words) |
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