Elizabeth Compton Hegemann poses with two kachina plaques, one completed and one in progress, at the Hopi village of Oraibi in 1927. | Elizabeth Compton Hegemann
Towering Figure
During their brief marriage in the 1920s, writer and photographer Elizabeth Compton Hegemann and her husband, Michael Harrison, lived on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, where Harrison worked as…
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
Oh, What A Night!
Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions resulting from an extreme geomagnetic storm in outer space, in which electrons…
A.E. Douglass extracts a core sample from a tree on Mount Lemmon, in the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains, in the mid-1940s. | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
Tree Cheers For Andrew Douglass
A rainy winter day in Tucson is as good as any to stay inside and explore the Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. I pull on a latex glove and pick up a bundle of spindly…
Shadows cloak the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in a sunset view from Hunts Mesa. By Larry Lindahl
High Ground
Summer wildflowers thrive on a slope on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff. The Peaks, the remains of an eroded stratovolcano, are topped by 12,633…
Lupines and other summer wildflowers grow in a meadow along the road to Point Sublime, an overlook on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The 17-mile road requires a high-clearance vehicle. LAURA ZIRINO
This Place Is Cool
The California condor seemed a windblown thing. Rising suddenly above the wall in front of Grand Canyon Lodge, huge wings spread across half the sky, it wheeled into wind, or away from it, or was…
Ringtail cat on rocks at night by Anne James
2024 Arizona Wildlife Views Photo Contest
Do you want to see your photo on the cover of Arizona Wildlife Views? Do you have a knack for capturing great photos of wildlife? Then you won’t want to miss the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s…
Low-hanging storm clouds cloak the cliffs of the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in the Santa Catalina Mountains, near Tucson. By Jack Dykinga
The Healing Power of Wilderness
There are three things that might happen if we consider wilderness a form of alchemy. One: We will be transformed by having experienced it. Two: In the stars we find there, out there in the open, our…
Snow covers a streambed in the Inner Basin of the San Francisco Peaks. “A pipeline beneath the white mantle supplies the Flagstaff reservoir,” Arizona Highways reported in 1936. By Norman G. Wallace
Monarch of the North
The rays of the rising sun bathe the mesas in golden light. They stand out sharply against the western horizon. Long gray shadows shorten to purple haze; a new day begins on the Painted Desert.  In…