Scientists restore an endangered orchid to Arizona’s desert wetland.
Melissa L. Sevigny
Melissa L. Sevigny is an Arizona writer whose work centers on the intersections of science, nature and history in the Western U.S. Her most recent book is Brave the Wild River, which won a National Outdoor Book Award and a Reading the West Award.
Posted inJanuary 2026: Deep Time in the West
How plate tectonics revolutionized our understanding of Earth
And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
Tenacious specimens of the Grand Canyon
In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.