Smoke from the Dragon Bravo file on the Grand Canyon's North Rim resembles a giant thunderhead. By Lauren Cisneros
Lauren Cisneros: This Is My Story
Lately, I’ve been pushing myself to step outside and document the Dragon Bravo Fire, on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, from the South Rim — trying to process something that still feels surreal.…
A cactus garden and colorful ceremic pots near a Southwest style fence and gate adorn the grounds of Desert Meadow Park. By Norma Jean Gargasz
Desert Meadows Park
“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 —…
One indigenous woman sits on a crate, fixing another indigenous woman's hair.
Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka
In 2024, the Heard Museum received a landmark gift of the Jerry Jacka archive, which makes us stewards of one of the largest and most consequential collections of documentary photography of Native…
Battleship in the Grand Canyon
Climbing Aboard the Battleship
Perhaps I should’ve charted safer courses years ago. But here I am, closer to my 70s than my 50s, still chasing improbable dreams. This time, with one particularly stubborn idea: to climb The…
Smoke from the Dragon Bravo Fire creates sunbeams in the Grand Canyon just before sunset. By Matt Soeffner
Stories from the North Rim
In the wake of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, many of the surrounding cabins and thousands of acres of old-growth forest on the North Rim of the…
A jaguarundi perches on a tree trunk. Despite their name, jaguarundis are in the same genus as mountain lions, not jaguars. | iStock
A Little Cat Goes A Long Way
There are all sorts of cats in Arizona — from coddled condo kitties and feral Tucson toms to bobcats and cougars, the big cats of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The ringtail, sometimes called a ring-…
Sedona’s iconic Cathedral Rock formed the backdrop for a set used in Copper Canyon, a 1950 film that starred Ray Milland and Hedy Lamarr. By Bob Bradshaw
Quiet on the Set
Nineteen seventy-three. That was the unofficial end of the movie business in Sedona. There were a few other flicks in subsequent years — The Quick and the Dead, National Lampoon’s Vacation — but by…
Dawn and night briefly share the sky over Ye Bi Chei at Monument Valley, in Northeastern Arizona. The Navajo people, on whose land this photograph was made, have strong spiritual beliefs tied to the moon. By Suzanne Mathia
As Different as Night and Day
When members of the Kaibab-Paiute Tribe look up at the night sky above their homeland in one of the darkest places in the Lower 48, a bighorn sheep named Naag often comes to mind. According to a…