Justin Stewart, an ecologist with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, collects a sample of soil containing mycorrhizal fungi taken at Saguaro National Park. Credit: Wyatt ...
Fires accelerated by climate change, along with invasive plants and urban sprawl, threaten the saguaros, a keystone species of the Sonoran Desert and a celebrated symbol of the Southwest. A saguaro ...
Each spring, the iconic saguaro cacti looms across parts of Arizona. The prickly mysterious giant grows in the desolate Sonoran desert covering southern Arizona and northern Mexico, but it might be in ...
In the middle of the Bush Fire burn scar northeast of Phoenix, Natural Restorations co-founder Justin Corey demonstrated how to plant a saguaro cactus. First thing to know: They're sharp. Corey ...
The Chihuahuan Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most diverse in the world. Over 175,000 square miles spanning northern Mexico, southwestern ...
The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 62, No. 3 (September 2017), pp. 200-206 (7 pages) Federal land managers and ranchers often use prescribed fire as a tool to reduce invading woody plants within desert ...
Read full article: This simple task can increase your comfort -- and save you money -- during the Florida heat wave PHOENIX – If you have ever been to Phoenix, Arizona, you’ve likely seen the saguaro ...
All plants need water to survive. Those that live in places where water is scarce use some interesting strategies to stay alive. That’s what I found out from my friend Charles Cody, who manages one of ...
Michael Eason sat at his desk scrolling through cactus listings on eBay. Eason — a botanist in Alpine, Texas — was looking for something called the Ariocarpus fissuratus. Squat, furrowed and fleeced ...