With Wild West Spirit, Tombstone Fights for Its Water

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By New York Times | 24 June 2012 | 595

The rules were clear: no vehicles and no heavy machinery on the mountainside spot ravaged by fire and rain. Fixing the PVC pipe that carries water from a spring in the Coronado National Forest to this old frontier boomtown, the United States Forest Service decreed, would have to be done by hand. A colorful posse of volunteers departed in a caravan one recent morning to make the repairs and prove a point. Read More