Dave Foster casts up and across the Colorado River at Long Bar. Photograph by Scott Baxter.
A River Runs Through Him
As the sun dips behind the sandstone walls of Marble Canyon, the temperature dips, too. It’s 4:15 p.m., and Dave Foster stands in waders in the middle of the Colorado River, water up to his waist. We…
Hanging foliage grows along a perennial spring that feeds East Clear Creek. Photograph by Joel Hazelton.
The Unexpected Nature of Arizona
Delicate wildflowers bloom among the leaves of corn lilies in the Chiricahua Mountains of Southeastern Arizona. As a “sky island” range, the Chiricahuas harbor many…
Evening light illuminates the rolling foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains along Gardner Canyon Road, an ideal route for exploring the range. Photograph by Norma Jean Gargasz.
The High Roads
Before You Go Each of these drives includes travel on unpaved roads that sometimes don’t see a lot of traffic, so make sure you have the right vehicle and are aware of weather and road conditions…
One of the Grand Canyon’s steep cliffs dwarfs a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) as it navigates the gorge. Photograph by John Sherman
Talon Search
Like playing right field, counting migrating raptors at the Grand Canyon is a test of patience and focus. With extended periods of absolutely nothing being interrupted by fast and furious action, it’…
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…