Art of the Wild

Arizona’s Gov. Doug Ducey — once known as the most fiscally-conservative of all border state governors —proposed earmarking a billion…

National Park Service officials at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument announced a road closure that will block access to Quitobaquito…

How do adversaries find common ground? How do they work together to find common goals and interests? Food from the…

Here’s what Biden should do about the poverty, discrimination and environmental destruction. President Biden has pledged that there will “not…

I am going to tell you something awe full. If you turn to wild nature in the winter,  Not merely…

Off the southern coast of California, just across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, dolphins swim around the fence that juts…

Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation reaffirmed the modern relevancy of a sacred site in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument impacted by border wall construction.

A group of Tohono O’odham, Hia C-ed O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and their non-Indigenous allies gathered, Sunday, March 8, beside the pond fed by Quitobaquito Springs to discuss how building the border wall and pumping local groundwater to make cement is harming the area cherished by the local Indigenous peoples.

Marlene Vazquez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. She said she regularly visits Quitobaquito Springs, but she’s seen the landscape change to the recent changes.

The trade in spices goes back to ancient times: from the Frankincense trails that originated in the Dhofar Highlands in…

This last year, we have palpably felt a heightened level of traumatic stress pervasive in the Indigenous communities where all three of us have worked on both sides of the international boundary. Throughout our adult lives, we have provided educational opportunities, technical assistance, and land rights advocacy strategies within the many Indigenous communities that live within 100 miles or so from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Around 2,700 scientists from 47 countries have signed a letter supporting a scientific paper by Defenders of Wildlife that concludes…

Gary: Greetings, master. Prickly Pear: Greetings. Bless you, my child. Gary:  I am here to ask you to tell me…

In a Southwest that’s getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly…

Land degradation is impacting farmlands worldwide, affecting almost 40% of the world’s population. Reversing that process and restoring these croplands…

I walk the line. Well, I used to walk the line, looking for desert belly flowers, rare cacti, kangaroo rat…

The only job description that fully fit with his temperament and enormous skill set was that of being in exuberant…