If you hike in Arizona, you hear stories about wildlife encounters. I’ve yearned to observe a desert tortoise in the wild, while I’ve wanted to avoid seeing a rattlesnake anywhere. Desert tortoises spend most of their lives in a shelter, often underground. Living underground helps them maintain a constant body temperature. Desert tortoises are ectothermic. That […]
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On May 21, 2020, White Tank Mountain Regional Park experienced a 128-acre wildfire within the park’s boundaries. Thankfully, the wildfire didn’t cause harm to people or structures. However, the wildfire did leave the park with an abundance of scorched plants in its wake. Many questions remain as to the long-term effects the fire will have […]
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When you’re doing what you love, the last thing that’s supposed to happen is something very, very wrong. But that’s exactly what transpired when Stephanie Moran got on the saddle of a horse and went on a ride. She’d been on many rides before. Horses are her life, but one fateful day a horse she […]
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Life had become overwhelming for Gabrielle Sales. The East Coast native was going to college full-time, working, and trying to heal from heartbreak. To put it mildly, she was burned out. “I felt lost. I was overcoming a tough period in my life,” she said. She had thought life would lay out a certain way, […]
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For most people, the benches sitting throughout White Tank Mountain Regional Park are there for them to take a rest from hiking or to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. But for some, like Laurel Taylor, one bench in particular means so much more. On July 13, 2012, her daughter Brianna was stillborn. And while […]
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