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“For most people, Desert Meadows Park is an organic discovery,” says Chuck Parsons, president of the Green Valley Gardeners club. And that’s an appropriate way to stumble upon this 4.2-acre garden —…
Since 2000, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument has protected a vast, diverse landscape on the Canyon’s North Rim — and almost no one has seen it. That’s to be expected, given that parts of the…
Frank Lloyd Wright had no regard for the tall. That’s a reminder many visitors receive when they explore Taliesin West, the legendary architect’s winter headquarters in Scottsdale. During Wright’s…
Sometimes, to see the big picture, you have to look at the granular details. So, instead of studying the solar system through a telescope, planetary scientist Meenakshi Wadhwa examines meteorites…
On the day before the winter solstice, I follow Jon Hardes up a scree-covered trail at Petrified Forest National Park. I’ve come to see a petroglyph known to interact with the sun this time of year,…
Beneath the Dragoon Mountains, down a primitive forest road lined with pistachio trees and scattered homesteads, sits the 40-acre Cochise Stronghold Ranch. There, Kalen Pearson, an Arizona Raptor…
Melissa Wright saw her life branching out before her like a green fig tree. Mirroring a passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, she was overwhelmed by the figs she could have chosen, each…