by Rob Samuelsen Douglas Spring Trail in the Rincon Mountains is a popular hike on the northwestern flank of Saguaro National Park East. The intermittent Douglas Spring is a long 16.6 mile...
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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August, Monsoon Rainfall Report
by John Simpson For the month of August, the monsoon rainfall was generally average for the area. Some areas below, some average, and some above average. So nothing out of the ordinary. The...
Upper Missouri River – Montana
by Rob Samuelsen On May 29, 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition camped at the confluence of Slaughter Creek and the upper Missouri River. Using poles, ropes, and paddles, they somehow...
Sunset Crater
by Rob Samuelsen Geologists estimate that Arizona has had five volcanic periods ultimately resulting in three active volcanic fields today. The San Francisco volcanic field (aka Flagstaff...
Horse Lubber
On a mid-November desert excursion, I encountered a most unusual insect. It’s not uncommon to observe grasshoppers, but this individual was distinctly different in several ways. Its length...
Rainbow Bridge
A century ago, Anglos first heard about a magnificent natural bridge shaped like a rainbow and larger than the Capitol Dome. In 1909, through serendipity, an archaeology Professor and a...
Drones Over Our Community
On a Sunday in early August, Shannon Kessler was outside walking in her community when she noticed a drone buzzing nearby in the air. As she watched the drone, she could clearly see the...
Ironwood National Monument by Rob Samuelsen of...
The U.S. Department of the Interior is conducting a review of certain National Monuments designated or expanded since 1996 under the Antiquities Act of 1906 in order to implement Executive...
Observations in Nature: Palo Verde by John Leeper
In 1954, the Arizona state legislature designated palo verde as the state tree. Back then, palo verde trees were in the genus Cercidium. The genus was later revised to Parkinsonia...
Observations in Nature: Brittle Bush
by John R. Leeper Imagine a plant, native to the deserts of the Southwest, that humans have found uses ranging from religion to dental hygiene. The brittle bush deserves recognition for...