Photograph by Dawn Kish
In Depth

Learning the Ropes

 “Live bait.”  That’s what today’s training is called. More properly, “tethered rescue” — an advanced swift-water…
Photographs by David Zickl
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In For A Bumpy Ride

This story starts with falling off a mountain bike, onto wet red clay, in front of a lot of people.  Riders from the…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
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Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Co.

Chiles have been a part of Jeanie Neubauer’s life for as long as she can remember: Her father, Gene England, started…
Photograph by Nick Berezenko
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Take the High Roads

WILDCAT CROSSING Bighorn sheep gather in a grassy meadow along Forest Road 24, part of…
Photograph by John Burcham
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The Grandmother of All Ponderosas

I call her the grandmother tree. She lives near the top of Mars Hill in Flagstaff, on a slope well away from…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
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Great Big Trees

Standing just outside Saguaro National Park East, Nick Shipley and I take in the pale, jigsaw-puzzle trunks of…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
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A Walk in the Woods

Mature Frémont cottonwoods (Populus fremontii) line Southern Arizona’s San Pedro River…
Photograph by Tom Bean
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The Insistence of Aspens

This morning, I walked through a grove of winter aspens. Bare branches offered no shimmering summer green, no quivering…