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Born Survivor

TRANSCENDENCE, SOLACE, serenity, inner peace ... your first encounter with a saguaro forest, a fantasy landscape that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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-…
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They Like to Bee Alone

Do bees dream? That’s something Tucson-based pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann likes to ponder. After more than…
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Living in the Sticks

A family of Harris’ hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) nest atop a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea…
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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…