Native edible trees and plants have a bounty of benefits to the desert and the people living in it. The trees and plants ...

It’s one of Maricopa’s best-kept secrets, even if it’s a massive half-million acres with three federally protected desert wilderness areas.

Cacti and other plants like chollas ... Saguaros abound at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. Across the 496,000 acres of this vast protected swath of desert, you truly get a feel for the ...

In time, I learned to lead with “Sonoran Desert” and quickly explain that there’s a national park unit in southern ... framing the picture. The monument boasts 640 native plant species, including its ...

The saguaro cactus is a distinctive icon of the American Southwest, found only in the Sonoran Desert ... and long-lived multi-armed plants. President Herbert Hoover specifically set aside land as a ...

North of Tucson, regardless of whether the east or west option is selected, the new highway corridor would run alongside Sonoran Desert National Monument, threatening its wilderness and recreation.

“Interstate 11 would devastate treasured places like the Sonoran Desert National Monument. It also poses grave threats ... ignoring community concerns about the highway’s threats to plants, wildlife, ...

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is one of the best-preserved structures from the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People. Today it transports visitors to the United States’ ancient roots and serves ...