Petey thinks it is just fantastic that poison ivy is part of the Bisbee streetscape. He’s a strange fellow.
Poison ivy is a sumac. Its botanical name is Rhus radicans and there are so many cool sumacs around the world. Many are known for their edible fruit in tea form or ground into a powder. Yum! But poison ivy doesn’t fall into the edible fruit category and I think that only in old Bisbee, Arizona will you find it leaning into the sidewalk to be brushed against. So caution my friends when wandering the steep sidewalks of that marvelous little town in the Mule Mountains.
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper...
I originally wrote Borderlands Jaguar while driving up to Tucson to do a presentation for the Center for Biological Diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/). I wrote it...
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and...
