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This Southwestern National Park Is in the World’s Wettest Desert—With Over 2 Million Towering Cacti
While the Grand Canyon may be Arizona’s best-known national park, it’s not the only one worth a visit. With 22 National Park ...
Saguaro cactuses tower over Arizona's desert landscape, each year inching higher and higher for hundreds of years as they watch time pass. While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds the ...
Bearing the state flower of Arizona, the saguaro cactus remains an essential part of the Sonoran Desert’s identity. The 40-60 foot-tall saguaro and its fruit are great natural resources for both ...
ARIZONA (CBSDFW.COM) - A very sticky situation for a driver in Arizona who amazingly escaped injury after going off the roadway and having his car's windshield impaled by a saguaro cactus. According ...
After pockets of morning drizzle early Sunday, a drier afternoon is in store with highs in the upper 80s and a gusty south wind. Read full article: Sunday starts with patchy drizzle, ends warm and ...
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See the Saguaro: 9 Fun Things to Do in Saguaro National Park in AZ
Each side of Saguaro National Park offers a visitor center with restrooms and watering stations. Visitors will find maps, Junior Ranger booklets and rangers to ask questions. Each visitor center ...
I had no idea when I moved to Phoenix how much I was going to miss all the trees I grew up with in the Northeast. Floor-to-ceiling greenery with verdant mountains, rushing rivers, deep mysterious ...
Why Tohono O’odham Nation’s centuries-old saguaro fruit harvest is experiencing a revival in Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...
The cacti arrive in buckets and cardboard boxes, in truck beds and plastic cups. Some are prickly green knobs smaller than a fist; others are saguaros a few feet tall—miniature versions of the ...
When Kenneth “Tuk” Jacobson got a call about a bald eagle nesting in a saguaro cactus, he had his doubts. For one, as Arizona Game and Fish Department’s raptor management coordinator, he often ...
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