Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full flush of flower in June or early ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

This year marks the 25th year since the Ironwood Forest National Monument was proclaimed in June of 2000. The Monument boundary includes 189,000 acres of natural Sonoran Desert and includes seven sky ...