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The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression ...
According to the zoo, the agave's main rosette will die and leave behind "pups," or clone offshoots at its base, which could ...
High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this summer.
Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...
The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens ...
A priest visited from Tucson to celebrate the Mass. A statuette of St. John the Baptist stood by a bunch of fresh flowers, candles and burning desert sage in lieu of incense.
Tucson has failed to enforce a policy meant to preserve native plants like saguaros for at least the past 20 years, a shortcoming that officials said saps limited groundwater, hinders the city’s ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — On St. John the Baptist’s feast day in late June, an extended Tohono O’odham family attends Mass out at their desert camp, where they gather to harvest saguaro fruit in ...
The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.
Owls, elks, woodlands and steppes were just some parts of the ecological world included in a recent assessment of Mesa Verde ...