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Environment & Energy

StarryNite

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35. Haboobs are quite amazing.

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #30)

Fri Jul 14, 2023, 03:05 PM

Jul 2023

There is so much construction and sprawl going on which disrupts the natural Sonoran Desert. It's really sad. The native plants, animals, and soil all suffer for it. In the end we suffer too.

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