Sonoran Desert Hike

“The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! . . .

… A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”

~Frank Herbert, Dune

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TERRITORY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
This place is on the traditional territory of the Xawiƚƚ kwñchawaay (Cocopah), Yavapaiv Apache, and Piipaash (Maricopa) nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Official site

• Wikipedia entry

• Google map