Funds at Work

Stalking the Carnivorous Plants of Big Thicket National Preserve

A Legendary Cowboy’s Connection with Capulin Volcano National Monument

Babysitters Wanted – Saguaro cactuses seek desert nurse trees for permanent position

The sun rises over the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson, Arizona, beaming hues of orange, pink and purple into the sky....

Moth Man and His Multitudinous Mysteries

Just miles from the site where the U.S. military detonated the first atomic bomb, scores of species entirely new to science...

Keeping the Lead Out – The Endangered California Condor

In 2010, the Peregrine Fund reported that 72 percent of condors captured in Arizona had lead in their blood. Of this...

From Photos to DNA: Citizen scientists focus on Gila monsters at Saguaro National Park

Emma steps out often but stays close to home. After almost drowning, Ward kept a low profile for 12 years. King...

The Ants Go Marching On: 30 years of Atta mexicana in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

It was mid-October, and it was still hot in the Sonoran Desert. The land was beyond parched. The creosote leaves looked...

Outfoxing the Red Fox

About 300,000 years ago, during the last big Ice Age, a small red creature traversed the deep snow of what is...

Bats Battle Fungus – Bat Cave Microclimates at El Malpais

Imagine a world without bats—a world overrun with biting insects, a world where plants that rely upon bat pollinators might disappear. ...

Tree Rings Do Tell Tales

What Tree Rings Can Tell Us Dendrochronology (from dendron, meaning “tree limb,” and khronos, meaning “time”) can be used to date...

Proof of Life. Tent Circles at Bighorn Canyon

Tipi Rings Outline the Circle of Domestic Life One of the most ephemeral of archaeological artifacts, the tipi ring, or tent...

Mahogany on the Decline.

Solving the puzzle of dying curl-leaf mountain mahogany trees in Bighorn Canyon, Wyoming A battle for supremacy is raging on the...