Then in early 2000, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan and other researchers from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum authored “The Desert Ironwood Primer,” a paper highlighting the tree’s ...

The Monument contains the tallest ironwood tree in Arizona. The Ironwood Forest is also home to a healthy indigenous herd of desert bighorn sheep. They range across four of the central mountain ...

In addition to thousands of saguaro cacti, Ironwood Forest National Monument is home to ironwood trees, the longest ... visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the world-famous botanical garden ...