Amid tall ponderosa pines, a horse grazes on wildflowers and grasses in the Heber Wild Horse Territory, near the town of Heber. Photograph by Anne James
Horse Sense Or Nonsense?
Six years ago, William E. Simpson II was serving as a local adviser to crews battling the 2018 Klamathon Fire. He watched as flames raced toward his rural community, just south of the Soda Mountain…
A cow elk (Cervus elaphus) stands in a marshy area at Mormon Lake, southeast of Flagstaff. Photo by Shane McDermott
Our Wild Side
A Western banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus) clings to the bark of a paloverde tree. Found in a wide range of habitats in the American Southwest, this species is the…
Flies gather moisture from a bison’s eye in DeMotte Park, a clearing just north of Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim entrance. Photo by Paul Gill
Oh, Give Me A Home
When 30 million bison roamed the North American continent, some of them found their way to the Kaibab Plateau. Biologists believe they were present in small herds off and on over the past 11,000…
Drawing by Bob Waldmire
Drawing Attention to Bob
It was early 1996, and Bob Waldmire was living in Hackberry, along Northwestern Arizona’s stretch of Historic Route 66, and running his revived Hackberry General Store. To those who’d followed his…
Photograph by Josef Muench (NAU Cline Library)
Land Of The Stone Comics
Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Arizona is the Chiricahua National Monument. It covers 10,693 acres in the extreme northern end of the Chiricahua Mountains. Aside from the beauties to be…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Set In Stone
A rock arch frames Punch and Judy, two hoodoos that resemble a bickering couple, near the Heart of Rocks Loop. The loop itself is 7.3 miles in length, but some…
Courtesy Spragge Family Collection
On This Day In Rock History
On Labor Day in 1934, some 7,000 visitors crowded onto Massai Point for the dedication of Chiricahua National Monument. While the Bisbee High School Bugle Corps played and dignitaries expounded,…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Take A Picture, It’ll Last Longer
Desert sand verbenas (purple) and evening primroses (white and yellow) blanket a sand dune at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Western Arizona. Operated by the U.S.…