Arizona

School of Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis)

Love the Habitat You’re With

Locals in Tucson, Arizona are applying “reconciliation ecology” techniques to rehabilitate the region’s degraded landscapes and waterways.

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The Pinyon Paradox

Steering pinyon jays from decline requires better knowing and tending one of the American West’s most unappreciated woodlands.

The Saguaro Solution

Can a massive effort to replant cacti in the Sonoran Desert restore an ecosystem ravaged by fire?

Mexican wolf "M1296" walks off a sedative after being processed and released back into the field during a January 2016 annual Mexican wolf count based out of Alpine, Arizona. After receiving vaccinations and a new GPS collar, M1296 was reacquainted with his mate not far from where he was initially captured. Photograph by Christina Selby
Into the Wild

North America’s rarest wolf subspecies is finally reclaiming its native territory in the Southwest, thanks in part to a fostering program that places captive-born pups into wild dens.

lesser long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae)
Agave Whisperers

As they follow—and mentally map—flowering agaves from Arizona to Mexico, lesser long-nosed bats pollinate the plants that bring the world tequila.

A pair of grey foxes visit one of the ‘skeleton trees’ in their territory
Skeleton Tree

Gray foxes climb into the trees to grab a few feet of vertical advantage.