Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
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
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
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…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
A Mexican goldpoppy (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana) waits to unfurl its colorful petals. In the background are the blooms of a lupine (genus Lupinus), a type of…
Photographs by Bob Markow
For more than four decades, Bob Markow documented the midcentury growth of Metropolitan Phoenix. Although the “dean of Arizona photographers” passed away in 2009, his…
Photographs: Arizona Historical Society
On a cloudless August morning, the Hassayampa River Preserve’s namesake waterway runs crystal clear along its sandy course while summer tanagers, warblers and indigo buntings chatter in the lush…
Photograph: Arizona Historical Society
If you were to make a film about pioneering Arizona aviator Ruth Reinhold, the movie would open somewhere high over the Mogollon Rim south of Winslow. It’s March 1949, and Reinhold is behind the…
Photograph: Spragge Family Collection
Chiricahua National Monument is known for its rhyolite hoodoos, stone pillars carved by natural processes over thousands of years. But just northwest of the monument’s visitors center are two stone…