Photograph: COURTESY OF MIKE PAVON
History

State Champions: 1973

It was halftime in the 1973 AA state basketball tournament semifinals, and Flagstaff’s Coconino High School Panthers found themselves down 20 points...
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Nature

Ares Metalmark

Members of the family Riodinidae, Ares metalmark butterflies (Emesis ares) are found across Southern Arizona, Southwestern New Mexico and Mexico and...
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Around Arizona

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...
Photograph by John Burcham

Kahtoola

Photograph by John Burcham
Lodging

Fernow Cabin

When you’re staying at Fernow Cabin, it takes a while for your brain to adjust to the extreme isolation of this renovated U.S. Forest Service guard station. You might think you hear a car, but it’s...
Photograph by John Burcham
Around Arizona

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...
Photograph by Jill Richards
Culture

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,...
Photograph by Jack Breed (Click to view entire image.)
In Depth

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....