The Ecological Case Against
Telescopes on Mount Graham

Pictures of Hudsonian Forest on Mount Graham's Summit:

• Unique Species on Summit of Mount Graham
  List of 18 unique species found only on Mount Graham's Hudsonian forest summit.
• Mount Graham's Summit:
  Pristine Ancient Forest Before Observatory
  A rebuttal of U. of V. Astronomy Dept. claim that Mt. Graham's summit was not pristine before the telescopes.
• Mt. Graham Red Squirrel: Descriptive Narrative
  From Endangered Mammals of North America by Victoria Sherrow.
• Mt. Graham Red Squirrel Extinction
  Probability “Moderate to Very High”
  A June 25, 2001 news advisory from the Center for Biological Diversity citing a March 5, 2001 study by biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz finding that that Mt. Graham Red Squirrel extinction probability was “moderate to very high.”
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• Arizona Game and Fish Dept. Inflating Squirrel Surveys to Promote Telescopes
  December 2, 1997 news advisory from the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity citing an internal Arizona Game and Fish Dept. study.
  Includes extensive documentation.
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• Lies about the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel Debunked
  A rebuttal of claims about the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel made by the University of Virginia Astronomy Department when they were joining the LBT project in 2002.
• 1990 U.S. GAO Investigation Revealed the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel Biological Opinion Was a Fraud
  An investigation by the Government Accounting Office pointed out that the Draft Biological Opinion (BO) prepared for the USFWS in 1987 would not have allowed a telescope within the vulnerable Emerald Peak squirrel habitat, but that that conclusion was changed for the final opinion due to political pressure.
• Mount Graham Red Squirrel Taxonomy