The desert plants gathered by the Hohokam - and later the Tohono O'odham - for food, medicine, tools and other things are still around. Even so, many contemporary Tucsonans don't recognize their uses.

Q: Define “desert gardening.” Nash: Desert gardening is a loose term. It means something different to everyone. I think of desert gardening as the use of local native plants — they belong here.

Beavers, often seen as simple builders of dams, are doing something remarkable in North America’s arid desert regions. While deserts are typically known for their dry, barren landscapes, these ...

Asbell, the director of plant conservation for the land trust, had the idea in 2016 to start collecting and cataloguing seeds from the unique plant life in southern California’s Mojave Desert.

Jorge G. Cepeda-Pizarro, Walter G. Whitford, Decomposition Patterns of Surface Leaf Litter of Six Plant Species Along a Chihuahuan Desert Watershed, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 123, No. 2 ...