Well, there is nothing more fun, well okay, for me, than starting in the desert grassland and slowly driving and stopping your way up into a sky island. The journey into the hills talked about here was inspired by my friend Bill Radke, who told me about these hybrid populations of Aqulegia chrysantha X desertorum. Well, of course I had to go see for myself and I did. Very cool.
The genus is now Hesperocyparis, but back in the olden days I learned the rough bark Arizona cypress of southeastern Arizona as Cupressus arizonica...
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only...
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in...
