So far, one of the highlights of my internship was the opportunity to visit Manning Camp. Manning camp is an old summer home that was built for the mayor of Tucson in 1905. It was built in an area frequented by Indigenous peoples living in...
In the Sonoran Desert, the most valuable commodity is water. When the summer monsoons come to bring water to the desert, the most beautiful and amazing smell engulfs the desert. It is the smell of the water condensing on the little red creosote leaves as...
Life as a Gila Monster is fairly simple: sleep all day with periodic water and snack breaks. On a seemingly ordinary day, a Gila Monster woke up on a hot summer day feeling rather thirsty. Slowly, he lumbered from his fairly inconspicuous hole where he...
At Saguaro! Saguaro National Park is a mystical place located in Southern Arizona. The park is full of mysteries, from strange looking cacti, to lizards that look like rocks, to the numerous unexplored canyons that can be found around the park. Each of Saguaro National Park's...
Hello everyone! My name is Gabriel Mogollon. I'm from Tucson, Arizona and I'm the LHIP intern at Saguaro National Park. I go to Tufts University in Massachusetts. I am a pre-Law student and I'm majoring in Environmental Engineering. Growing up in the Sonoran Desert, I...