The ocotillo is one of the tallest and weirdest plants in the desert. It doesn't even know it's a shrub. What looks like a bunch of sticks standing straight toward the sky is actually a collection ...

Maybe you’ve seen an ocotillo out in nature. Driving down 385 toward Big Bend National Park, the plants are hard to miss, with their sprawling branches snaking their way toward the sky. The ...

Q: I just purchased a retirement home in Joshua Tree and LOVE the ocotillo plant. I’m reading about the care and cultivation of them, but one thing perplexes me: which side is the south side and which ...

The Sierra Club on April 21 filed an appeal with the U.S. EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to challenge an air permit issued by the Maricopa County Air Quality Department for the Ocotillo natural gas ...

An upcoming update of a power plant in Tempe by APS is expected to provide benefits ranging from new construction jobs to an improvement in the neighborhood aesthetics. The project will modernize the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Desert biologist Jim Cornett measures a very old ocotillo plant at a study sight at Joshua Tree National Park, Friday, January 14, ...

Sierra Club is appealing an air-quality permit for a Tempe power plant APS is tearing down part of the Ocotillo plant and building five more powerful generators The plant opened in 1960 The Sierra ...

The Ocotillo Wind power project in California is back online after Siemens (NYSE: SI) decided insufficient adhesive bonding was at fault for a fallen turbine blade, according to a report from The San ...

Veteran desert biologist Jim Cornett was astonished to see a bright yellow and black caterpillar munching on a spiny ocotillo plant one late March day. Normally the razor-spiked plants would not be ...