It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
I was sort of right, but mainly wrong about poison ivy’s Latinized name. The species found in Arizona is Toxicodendron rydbergii, formerly Rhus radicans...
Petey encounters a black bear while on his annual hunt and gather in the Galiuro Mountains.
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...