Thick-billed parrots once were plentiful in Arizona, but today, the state has only six — all in captivity. This pair lives at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. | Bruce D. Taubert
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Thick & Thin

WHAT A GLORIOUS RACKET IT MUST HAVE BEEN. What an incredible clamor filled a Chiricahua Mountains forest one August day…
Keet Seel ruins sits perched on a cliff beneath a streak-stained sheer canyon wall. By Laurence Parent
Culture

Remains to be Seen

NAVAJO NATIONAL MONUMENT By Robert Stieve For the first time in four hours, Rick was at a loss for words. I couldn’t…
On the fifth day of the trip, author Kevin Fedarko (left) and photographer Pete McBride traverse a stretch of terrain across from 29 Mile Canyon. | RICH RUDOW
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A Walk in the Park

In September 2015, Flagstaff writer Kevin Fedarko and his best friend, photographer Pete McBride, set off from Lees…
The remnants of Ruby and Sherry Bowen’s desert home are preserved in Tucson Mountain Park. | Jeff Maltzman
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Out in the Desert

MORE THAN ONE TRAIL will take you to the old stone house in the hills west of Tucson. I like to begin at the Camino de…
A sunlit slope in the Mount Logan Wilderness is awash with desert vegetation. The 14,650-acre wilderness area was designated in 1984. | JONATHAN BUFORD
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The Outside World

Yellow wildflowers surround a prickly pear cactus in this late-afternoon scene from the Coyote Mountains Wilderness,…
Writer Tyler Williams surveys a significant rainstorm from the Mogollon Rim, east of Baker Butte. There, the Rim and the Arizona Divide make a sharp turn toward the east. | John Burcham
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There’s A Fine Line

THERE IS A LONE BRISTLECONE PINE that grows above timberline, on a slope of cinders. In winter, the tree emerges and…
This 12-shot stitched panoramic image of the Wave in North Coyote Buttes, near the Arizona state line with Utah, was captured by Shane McDermott
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This Is My Story … By Shane McDermott

This is a 12-shot stitched panoramic image of the Wave in North Coyote Buttes, near the Arizona state line with Utah. I…
Margaret Vail, whose husband purchased the property in 1876, works cattle in the historic upper corral. | Empire Ranch Foundation
Around Arizona

Empire Ranch

In the grasslands near Sonoita, a windmill rises from the desert landscape, marking the entrance to the historic Empire…