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Conservation groups, highway advocates square off on proposed Interstate 11

TUCSON – Before Interstate 10 was built, the Tohono O’odham Nation was relatively removed from the rest of southern Arizona. But in the 1960s, construction on the cross-country highway skirted the edge of the reservation. According to one of the tribe’s elected leaders, it didn’t just bring noise and air pollution, it encouraged development around […]

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