Picacho Peak is back and booming. More than twice as many hikers, climbers, runners and even average Joes visited Picacho Peak State Park this year than they did last year, according to the Arizona Office of Tourism. In its Monthly State Parks Visitation Report, the Office of Tourism claimed that the park had 864 visitors…
Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
On Earth Day in 2014, the small town of Bisbee passed an ordinance that put Arizona on the map for environmental consciousness. Bisbee- population 5,360- decided to ban single-use plastic bags in all retail stores throughout the city, requiring residents to use multi-use bags for all shopping needs. “Environmentally speaking, we have been able to…
The state of education in the United States is an intensely debated topic as the U.S. education rank has slipped to 14th in the world according to Pearson’s Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment. In an attempt to resurface in the upper echelon of the world’s top education systems, 43 states have adopted…
Mosquitoes could carry new troubles to Arizona. Dengue Fever and a second disease, Chikungunya, have started to crop up in areas surrounding Arizona, putting researchers on high alert about the looming threat the diseases could pose to the state. Both of these viruses are known as vector-borne diseases, carried and passed by mosquitoes. One particular…
