By Allison Fagan/El Inde The late afternoon sun peers behind a mix of nearby hills and mountains. It’s close enough that I can make out the shrubbery that peppers their sides, but far enough that I cannot identify what the plants are. Beneath me is a meadow, golden tall grass mixed with the occasional flower…
By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde From the early 1990s to 2003, Linda Robles’ day job involved trimming roses of all colors, decorating vases to match and taking in the smells of pollen and petals at Roses & More. All that would change to bright lights and late nights in emergency rooms as her pregnant daughter Tianna…
By Emma Brocato/El Inde Debbie Buecher is sitting on the patio of a coffee shop in central Tucson. On top of the small table sits her notebook, with the current page full of notes about the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) and its habitat needs. “When you drive down to Sonoita, there’ll be this big…
By Emma Brocato/El Inde On a September night, against the backdrop of a Tucson sunset, Kim Girard eagerly awaits the moment the bats will fly our from under the bridge by the thousands. She is wearing a pink shirt that says “Tucson Audubon Society Southeast Arizona Birding Festival” and has brought her adult daughter along….
By Bree Brettell/El Inde “This is my best friend, Dusty. He sniffs, ‘hello,’” says a young man as he gestures toward a golden Palomino horse. The broad horse marches slowly toward the edge of his pen to sniff an outreached hand. Standing a few feet away and smiling fondly is Scott Tilley. He is tall,…
