Photograph by Michael Jennings
Born Survivor
TRANSCENDENCE, SOLACE, serenity, inner peace ... your first encounter with a saguaro forest, a fantasy landscape that seems as improbable as a lake on the moon, fills you with none of these…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
So Far. So Good.
I’VE LOST ROB KRAR. Well, kind of. It’s midafternoon on a Thursday, and we’re running a segment of the Arizona Trail near the San Francisco Peaks. Krar detours into the woods. So, I am — if only…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
The Santa Catalinas: Tucson’s Nearby Wilderness
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the September 1985 issue of Arizona Highways. WE BED DOWN IN DAN SADDLE where the world of oak meets the world of pine. A big alligator…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Coyote, Owl and Mountain
Editor’s Note: Chances are, you’ve already read about Oak Flat. It’s a controversial story that’s been in the news for more than a decade. Like every story, there are at least two sides to this one.…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
This Is Harder Than It Looks
What enigmatic inspiration or demon magic is it that lives in this tree — this arboreal delinquent, bristling with 2-inch thorns, that refuses to yield lumber that isn’t laced with crinkly crevices…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
They Like to Bee Alone
Do bees dream? That’s something Tucson-based pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann likes to ponder. After more than four decades studying bee biology, he’s learned the insects likely have a…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
Living in the Sticks
A family of Harris’ hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) nest atop a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) on Bureau of Land Management land near Oracle. The bird perched on the…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
According to Custom
It was a cool, calm morning in June 1972. The sun had not yet risen behind the mesas that sit to the east of one of my family’s many homesteads on the Navajo Nation, a place we call Tsézhin…