Of course, it’s illegal to take saguaro from the desert and there’s a very constrained supply of legal saguaro. Which means having a big ol’ saguaro or two in the front yard as a status symbol. When some doofus transplant builds a McMansion in Arizona in and realizes they can’t have a great big green lawn, they decide the next best thing to do is to go all in on the desert look. These days the biggest threat to the saguaro comes from landscapers.
A TALE IN THE DESERT REDDIT SERIES
That’s thanks to the forward-thinking people of Arizona, who realized that the desert was an important part of the character of their state, and enacted a series of laws protecting desert plans and their environment. Saguaros have a very limited distribution, and grow only in the northern part of the Sonoran Desert, which means that in the United States they never occur naturally outside of southwestern Arizona.ĭespite their limited range, the saguaro is not endangered or threatened. And why not? It’s an enduring symbol of the American west.īut it probably doesn’t belong in your mental picture. You know the type: great tall trunk, mighty arms branching out of it and reaching up to the sky.
I bet you, somewhere in your mental picture, you had a saguaro cactus. Or maybe just a flat expanse of desert, empty save for a handful of tumbling tumbleweeds. Now, undoubtedly you pictured some majestic vista. I want you to picture the landscape of American Southwest in your mind’s eye. A Menace to the West David Grundman goes shooting at a stationary target - and breaks off more than he can handle We are a proud member of That's Not Canon Productions, a podcast network for independent podcasters of all stripes.ĭesigned and maintained by #13 at Lodge #777.
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