By Article Author Now that monsoon rains have brought dormant plants back to life, staff and interns at Saguaro National Park will begin the seasonal use of herbicides to control...
Category - Outdoors
They’ll See You Before You See Them
By Alisha Brewer If you are one of the few people to have spotted a mountain lion, consider yourself lucky! I know some people...
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AZ Adventures Outdoors: Sabino Canyon Crawler
By Rob Samuelsen For thousands of years, people have flocked to Sabino Canyon to use and enjoy the water because water is the...
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Highways & Byways for June 2021
By Tom Howard Houghton/I-10 InterchangeCrews have completed the switch of all the on and off ramps. Work continues the bridge...
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Looking Up – Tucson Mountain Ranges
By Rob Hallberg The Tucson area mountains are spectacular and very few US cities can boast they are “surrounded” by them. You can...
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Skyward: A Dog Star
By David Levy There are so many good reasons for acquiring an interest in the night sky. Mine wasn’t one of them. It turns out that I was extraordinarily shy as a child and had few...
Skyward: A Nightwatchman’s Journey: The Road not Taken
By David Levy On Friday, June 14, my latest book, my autobiography entitled A Nightwatchman’s Journey: The Road not Taken, was launched at the Royal Astronomical Society’s General Assembly...
Letter to the Editor: Mike Golter
To the editor: My wife and I, along with our dog Joey, recently completed a 3,700-mile car trip. The following are our observations of road conditions throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Texas...
June Climate and Monsoon Report
By John Simpson June 2019 was about average for temperatures and below average for precipitation. The Tucson airport was about 0.4 degrees above average in temperature for the month, but...
Out and About in the Southwest Pt. 3
By Mike Lavelle This article will conclude a three-part series recounting a recent motorcycle trip to Bryce and Zion Canyons, covering 1,666 miles in a group of 3 motorcycles and 1 car. At...
Active Part of Fire Season Ramping up on Coronado...
By Heidi Schewel The active part of fire season on Coronado National Forest is ramping up, and visitors to the forest are encouraged to practice fire safety and focus on “One Less Spark”...
The Mighty Saguaro
By Elizabeth Smith Our Sonoran Desert is the only place in the world you will find saguaros (Carnegiea gigantic) and the saguaro cactus flower is Arizona’s state flower. Because of our wet...
Cannabis
By Dr. Shaun McGuire Today, cannabis is a hot topic. I appreciate the stigma associated with cannabis. Let’s try to separate science from stigma. Different plant parts have different...
May, It Was May, Right?
By John Simpson May 2019 was very cool for southeast Arizona and depending on what part of area you live in, it was either very wet, or just average. Let’s start with temperatures first...