Sonoran desert Archives • Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

Unsprawl: Community of Civano in Tucson, Arizona

Unsprawl:
The Community of Civano
Tucson, Arizona

April 14, 2019

By Simmons B. Buntin About the Community of Civano 270-acre New Urbanist neighborhood with adjacent 55-acre “town center” Neigh... Read More...

Remembering Origins, fiction by Susan Feathers

Remembering Origins
by Susan Feathers

June 11, 2017

Fiction

Click button above to hear Susan Feathers read this novel excerpt, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. It was Dolores ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Pamela Uschuk

April 9, 2017

Letter to America, Poetry

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After the Election We Watch the Super Moon Rise over the Rincon Mountains The mountains are burning and we cannot sleep. W... Read More...

Ocotillo
by Maya L. Kapoor

March 11, 2016

Nonfiction

Fouquieria splendens Illustration by Paul Mirocha. Maya L. Kapoor's "Ocotillo" is an excerpt from The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Fie... Read More...

Two Poems
by John Willson

June 26, 2015

Poetry

Click button above to play audio for this poem, including the poet's introduction, or click here to download in .mp3 format.American TollPark Se... Read More...

Chubasco
by Ken Lamberton

July 30, 2014

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona Mount Lemmon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona On the nape of 9,157-foot Mount Lemmon, highest pe... Read More...

Beyond the Border: Cultivating Loyalty to Place
by Lorne Daniel

July 1, 2014

Currents, Guest Editorial

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Guest Editorial Click button above to play audio for this editorial, or click here to download in .mp3 format. Recently I have taken to much... Read More...

The Bighorn’s Dilemma
by Melissa L. Sevigny

June 3, 2014

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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How environmentalists, sportsmen, and Arizona officials put aside their differences for the benefit of a mountain. The project began ... Read More...

Review: The Gardener’s Guide to Cactus

May 21, 2012

Reviews + Reads

The Gardener’s Guide to Cactus: The 100 Best Paddles, Barrels, Columns, and Globes By Scott Calhoun Timber Press 2012 I moved to the desert... Read More...

Tucson BioBlitz uncovers diversity in the desert

October 24, 2011

Events, News

Standing under the sun on a 110-degree day in Tucson, it’s easy to assume the Sonoran Desert is a hostile, lifeless place. But, venture into the hil... Read More...

The Thirsty Tree
by Melissa L. Sevigny

April 1, 2011

Issue 27, Nonfiction

Confronting Invasive Salt Cedar in the American Southwest I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A ... Read More...

Interview with Bruce Babbitt

March 22, 2006

Interviews, Issue 18

Defensible BoundariesAbout Former Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce BabbittBruce Babbitt served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 ... Read More...

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