Photograph by Joel Hazelton
A Walk in the Woods
Mature Frémont cottonwoods (Populus fremontii) line Southern Arizona’s San Pedro River beneath puffy clouds. Named for explorer John C. Frémont, these trees are a common…
Photograph by Tom Bean
The Insistence of Aspens
This morning, I walked through a grove of winter aspens. Bare branches offered no shimmering summer green, no quivering, iridescent autumn gold. But no season can remove the trees’ dark eyes. Framed…
White wild horse chasing a brown one, ready to bite. Photo by Jessica Finnie.
Student Photo Contest Winners
First Place REPRIMAND Jessica Finnie Second Place LIFE FINDS A WAY Arianna DuPont   Third Place EGRET…
Photograph by Jill Richards
Refresh Glass
Ray DelMuro will tell you he likes to make things. But he doesn’t really have to tell you. The chair made out of Patrón tequila bottles outside his office is proof enough. As a kid in Southern…
Photograph by Randy Prentice
Sonoita Creek State Natural Area
Anything is a shipwreck, if you let it. Last year, as my children stood in Eastern Oregon’s Burnt River, playing at pirates, they found wreckage in the pebbles and river rocks, in the twigs and…
Photograph by Rebecca Wilks
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
State parks often protect cultural, historical and natural resources and provide education and recreation. But one of Arizona’s newest state parks — which honors the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
It's All Yours!
Slide Rock State Park The day after a storm, low clouds shroud the cliffs of Oak Creek Canyon as Oak Creek flows over polished sandstone. Algae on the park’s namesake…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
Tubac has lived as many lives as the proverbial cat: Historians count nine times the community has seemed to die, only to be resurrected. And the small Southern Arizona town was beginning its most…