Saguaro Park, bracketing Tucson, needs more parking as visitation surges, but “the community takes a lot of pride in the park, and they’re not going to let things fall apart.”
There’s a four-armed saguaro living on the western edge of Tucson that has one broken arm, one newborn arm, one thick older arm pointing to the Arizona sky and one slender younger arm pointing towards the Sonoran Desert soil.
As the sun set over the Sonoran Desert, the animals came out to play. The deer grazing among the saguaro were probably mule but could have been white-tailed it was tough to say at dusk with only mini red-light flashlights in hand instead of binoculars. The bird that perched on a tree branch for a few seconds before flying away had the distinctive silhouette of an owl.
Even though the big day has come and gone, there’s still plenty to do in our own backyard. Saguaro National Park West has plenty going on before New Year’s Eve
For Star subscribers: Human-caused climate change could have contributed to the Aug. 22 saguaro blowdown, a University of Arizona scientist says, but more data is needed.