As Pima County leaders work to finalize a fire mitigation plan, residents of Green Valley are sounding the alarm about a dangerous and fast-spreading invasive species: buffelgrass.

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

There are a lot of words used to describe how plants look or smell — think fragrant, prickly, tall or climbing. But there are also words that describe how and where plants grow — like invasive or ...

The Sonoran Desert is the most biodiverse desert in the world. It’s home to plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else on Earth. Historically, wildfires are uncommon in the Sonoran Desert, ...

The Club at Starr Pass in Tucson, Arizona, has completed a desert restoration project that focused on removing invasive species that choked out native plants. The work also improved sustainability and ...

Flavie Audoin works with the University of Arizona as an Assistant Rangeland Management Specialist. She explains that the sheep are wearing virtual fence collars to help control where they move ...

Particularly retirees who have a lot of skills.” Mr. Pike estimates that he’s cleared invasive plants from roughly 550 acres. A cactus blooming in the Tonto National Forest in March.

The study cited the 2020 Bush Fire and 2021 Telegraph Fire, both of which started in desert lowlands with the help of invasive plants, expanding to forested environments and burning a combined ...

Arizona Illustrated Desert Plant Special Season 2025 Episode 29 | 27m 59sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Willow.

The publication also noted that picking events are being organized by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. But invasive species can crop up anywhere, even in your yard. Native plants can help, as they ...

Conservation groups throughout Southern Arizona are calling on people at home to pull Stinknet wherever they find it, and then report it at Stinknet dot org. “If you can pull it and document it, ...