Botanist Gustaf Starck rallied people passionate about preserving desert plants with a sign outside his Scottsdale ranch.

Location: 26260 AZ-188, Roosevelt Cacti: Saguaros ... in the Yuma Desert region of the greater Sonoran Desert, is home to more than 275 fauna species and 400 plant species, making it an incredibly ...

A Harris's antelope squirrel amongst the spines of the cholla cactus, where it painstakingly ... comical heat dumping behaviour in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, the crew had to be very aware of ...

Cactus Garden was a roadside establishment ... purified over a windswept natural laboratory of desert and mountains," in a 1939 ad in The Arizona Republic. Its eight furnished cottages were ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

This section of the Sonoran Desert near the border between Arizona and Mexico features massive cacti ... this park preserves the only large concentration of organ pipe cacti in the country, as well as ...

Cactus ferruginous pygmy owls are named for the saguaro ... These tiny owls have become synonymous with wild Sonoran Desert: Endangered Species Act protections for the owl initiated a new era of urban ...

In Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, the species is threatened by urbanization and the planting and rapid ... “There’s no better indicator of the health of the beautiful Sonoran Desert than the ...