Arizonans aren’t kidding when they say they take their cactus seriously. Arizona is the only state in the U.S. that protects its cactus both in a national park (Saguaro National Park) and a national ...

ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. -- On a hot desert morning last week, a group of 20 tourists gathered in the visitor center in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to attend a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Organ pipe National monument has amazing looking cacti that are similar to the classic Saguaro but unique. These are disappearing and a big reason why is because of those ...

NEAR AJO, AZ (Arizona Highways TV)-- Along State Route 85 in southern Arizona is a small former mining town with a huge backyard. Ajo is completely surrounded by the beauty of the Sonoran Desert, and ...

A visit to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the U.S.-Mexico border about two hours from Phoenix or Tucson, requires some effort. The payoff, in addition to seeing unusual cactuses, is the ...

A small, little-known cactus found in Organ Pipe National Monument west of Tucson faces a "high and immediate" threat of extinction, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in proposing to protect it ...

Hannah Weinberger was an editorial assistant at Outside. Despite earning a degree in Mandarin Chinese from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hannah pursued an interest in environmental ...

Dusk can be one of the most beautiful times in the desert, as shown by Times reader “Alan66.” In this picture, the photographer captures two types of cactus silhouetted against the sunset in Arizona’s ...

Way down at the bottom of the country, very near the Arizona border with Mexico, lies Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The divide in the rugged Ajo Range delineates the eastern boundary of the ...