After a relatively dry summer season, Desert Ranch and the surrounding North Scottsdale area receive much needed early August rain. Most often the rain storms are short or lacking in intensity and any rainfall quickly soaks into the desert landscape. Though wash flows were not as high as those in 2014, the resulting flash floods…
These hemiparasitic plants can be seen growing on many of the desert trees. Birds eat the seeds and later deposit the sticky seeds on the branches of other healthy trees. Roots of the desert mistletoe then enter into the bark of the host tree slowly killing the tree if left untended. There is no cure…
Often people think of the desert as a dry barren wasteland; or perhaps a landscape merely dotted by a few prickly cactus that is limited in beauty to a few scenic vistas and the warm glow of a summer sunset. But this is far from a complete description of the high Sonoran desert environment of…
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