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 ...

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 ...

Cacti have a long and quite successful history of growing out of the ground. Sinking roots into dirt just seems to work. Now and then, though, a free-spirited cactus takes a very different approach.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...