Photograph by Rick Wiley
Sonoran Glass School
Given that 2,000-degree furnaces are involved, glass art can be as dangerous as it is beautiful. That means the proper skills for this challenging form of expression aren’t just important — they’re…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Maricopa Audubon Society
When bald eagles were federally listed as endangered in 1978, Arizona was home to only 11 breeding pairs. Today, breeding bald eagles occupy more than 70 territories in the state — thanks, in part,…
Photograph by John Burcham
She Goes
This is a story about a woman who accomplished something extraordinary in a place best known for its otherworldliness. It’s a story that might make you question the physical and mental limits of the…
Photograph by Jill Richards
Charros y Charras
Charreadas are often referred to as “Mexican rodeos,” but that description barely scratches the surface of these uniquely Mexican events. In fact, many components of the rodeo familiar throughout the…
Photograph by Jack Breed (Click to view entire image.)
Arizona's Timbered Treasure
ARIZONA’S MIDRIFF IS FAR FROM BARE. If you scurry across the much-used southern routes, you may think we haven’t enough wood to make a totem pole. But that’s because you’ve bypassed our 11-million-…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Wet Your Appetite
Jeff Maltzman A tiered cascade flows over golden-hued rocks in Bear Canyon, part of the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains. Numerous seasonal waterfalls come to…
Photograph by Rich Rudow
When It Rains, It Pours
Editor’s Note: The disaster in Phantom Canyon is included in our book The Desert Cries by Craig Childs. It appears in two parts: an essay about the canyon, and a detailed account of the deadly flood…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Learning on the Fly
My dad ties a lot of knots.  The first time I noticed his weird habit was in the 1980s or early ’90s, when we were in my parents’ dining/knot-tying room in the house they’d rented. That mental…