The Municipality of Huatabampo is located along the coast of the Gulf of California in southern Sonora, Mexico. The vegetation is coastal thornscrub, the more xeric version of tropical deciduous forest. In 1890, Edward Palmer collected plants at Agiabampo in the municipality. In the late 1980s…

This magnificent flora of the Sonoran Desert’s southern edge represents decades of meticulous work and the genius of Richard Felger (1934–2020) and his colleagues at their best. It is many things at once. A project of passion that was sparked by a trip in 1953 by an impressionable young…

Residents of the Rio Cocospera river valley and the town of Imuris were shocked to learn of a huge project already under construction in late 2023. This project is a brand new railway segment from the Imuris area to Nogales, but further east than the current railway, cutting through the…

Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources; they are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. By recognizing the…