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 Vanessa Lucero/El Inde From the outside, it looks like a typical striped yellow school bus, though it is parked in an isolated parking lot on Ajo Way street on the west side of Tucson, nowhere near a school but instead in front of Tiny’s family restaurant. On a hot sunny afternoon, walking inside the…
By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde A balmy Tucson breeze made its way through the open door of Gordon Groves’ southside workshop. He was in a sharp trance using a white-tipped pencil to trace abalone stone inlays. He will put the inlays into the ebony fretboard of a 12-fret dreadnought, a style of acoustic guitar featuring a…
By Cassandra Scott/El Inde Irina Chausovskaya, 28, grew up most of her childhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, with her siblings and parents, Olga and Alex. Irina described Ukraine as a beautiful country with so much to see and do. She painted a picture of the big farmlands and animals she grew up around and described how…
