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      October 22, 2019
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      August 21, 2019
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      July 30, 2019
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Tagged Sonoran desert

Unsprawl: Community of Civano in Tucson, Arizona

Unsprawl:
The Community of Civano
Tucson, Arizona

April 14, 2019
To Know a Place, Unsprawl
The Community of Civano located in Tucson, Arizona is a New Urbanist, 270-acre neighborhood designed and built using principles of sustainability, including reduced energy and potable water usage.
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
1
    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

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
2
  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
3
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
9
  How environmentalists, sportsmen, and Arizona officials put aside their differences for the benefit of a mountain.   The project began ... Read More...
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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...
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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

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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