The planned international observatory at Mount Graham, Arizona, provides a model of how environmental concerns should be met in a project of this size. But it remains vulnerable to Irresponsible "activists".
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Walsh, B., Angel, R. & Strittmatter, P. Endangered telescopes or species?. Nature 372, 215–216 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/372215a0
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