TUCSON, Ariz. • Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early ...

Tanisha Tucker Lohse of the Tohono Oʼodham nation picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson on June 23.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

(AP) — The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands ... for continued access to their harvesting land after it became part of Saguaro National Park. In her memory, a Mass is also ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its thorn-covered small fruit ripens. For members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, whose ancestors ...

In the 1960s, elder Juanita Ahil campaigned to preserve their access to the harvesting camp in the foothills west of Tucson after the land became part of Saguaro National Park.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the Tohono O'odham Nation, harvest time for the “bahidaj” is a sacred start ...

Tanisha Tucker Lohse, of the Tohono Oʼodham nation, picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, June 23, 2025. Credit: AP ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the Tohono O'odham Nation, harvest time for the “bahidaj” is a sacred start ...