Invite the animals in
With a desert habitat, birds, other critters will soon feel welcome
Just because you live in the middle of Tucson doesn't mean you can't enjoy the desert in your back yard.
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Earthly delight
It was cold enough to see your breath, but the kids outside Lawrence Intermediate School didn't mind a bit. They were too busy hunting for blue corn, picking peppers, studying a praying mantis and listening to a thrasher sing in their desert garden.
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'Hummingbird Highway' help
An important highway runs from southern Mexico through Arizona, but you won't find any pavement or road signs on it. It's called the "Hummingbird Highway," and it's a corridor of plants that hummingbirds, bees, moths, butterflies and bats pollinate as they migrate.
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