https://www.adelheidfischer.com/field-notes daily 0.75 2026-01-06 https://www.adelheidfischer.com/field-notes/plant-it-and-watch-them-come monthly 0.5 2026-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/aa6d5e12-8504-4726-9f92-bbd5ed23e43c/notes-flowers.png Field Notes - Plant It and Watch Them Come - Make it stand out Apricot Globe-Mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua), 2023 (left); A fruit fly (Trupanea nigricornis) lands on a brittlebush (Encelia farinosa), 2024 (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/5715da75-6234-4fa4-b0ee-0c2d2c4405b8/notes-bird.png Field Notes - Plant It and Watch Them Come - Make it stand out Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus), 2020 https://www.adelheidfischer.com/field-notes/wild-ideas-saguaro monthly 0.5 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/02446332-cf1d-497f-97c6-0bbd289a6f7d/shutterstock_1295824354-2160x524.jpg Field Notes - “Wild Ideas” Now Live! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/e895e8ef-9f6e-4c01-a890-222912e63880/shutterstock_2474563657-1440x1068.jpg.webp Field Notes - “Wild Ideas” Now Live! “Wild Ideas” profiles the plants and animals of our public lands and waters in six biomes: forest, desert, grassland, tundra and marine and freshwater systems. The project proposes a new role for some of the most iconic places in the United States—how the biota in our nation’s waters and wildlands can serve as a creative commons of ideas for generating innovative designs and sustainable solutions. https://www.adelheidfischer.com/field-notes/spellbound monthly 0.5 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1746649459516-TE7A2DO53MCQLDQ4UO9A/Screenshot+2025-05-07+at+1.12.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Notes - Spellbound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1746649459704-P1CWGO6DE2CEN932W10R/Screenshot+2025-05-07+at+1.12.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Notes - Spellbound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1746649464656-EZUD2AROYCODUIDXXYG3/Screenshot+2025-05-07+at+1.13.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Notes - Spellbound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1746649236218-KU012ZJSAADYVI2QLRCM/Screenshot+2025-05-07+at+1.12.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Notes - Spellbound But surviving is not the same as thriving and here is where biologists offer another critical edge over the competition. The ones I know are endlessly knowledgeable, endlessly curious and endlessly entertaining. 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Not only are bats agile, but they are profoundly resilient. In a flight chamber in her lab at Brown University, Sharon has run experiments in which a wing of a flying bat is hit with a gust of air nearly three times the animal’s body weight. Although the bats are completely knocked off balance, she says, it only takes a single wingbeat cycle for them to get back on track. https://www.adelheidfischer.com/field-notes/a-botanical-twofer monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/ee4204bc-0eca-4d25-91c0-6b8f13f6703f/Screen+Shot+2022-10-28+at+10.10.15+AM.png Field Notes - A Botanical Twofer In a 2013 blog post, Eric La Fountaine of the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden explored the mystery of desert trumpet’s stem distensions. It turns out that they are not caused by insects even though some insects use the empty chambers as food storage or shelter. According to Eriogonum expert, the late James L. Reveal of the University of Maryland, the stem swellings contain high concentrations of carbon dioxide. La Fountaine speculates that “possibly, the inflations give [desert trumpet plants] photosynthetic advantages—making more CO2 available and providing additional stem surface area to a plant that supports few leaves in the dry desert environment.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/605b5a15-3ee3-49ee-ab43-203a681186e9/Screen+Shot+2022-10-28+at+10.08.21+AM.png Field Notes - A Botanical Twofer Desert trumpet isn’t a show-stopper. It features a bouquet of woody green stems that sprout from a rosette of small leaves at its base. Its yellow blooms are so tiny that you need a magnifying lens to see them. You might easily walk right past the plant if it weren’t for a distinctive stem bulge, a botanical oddity that is captured in one of its Latin descriptors inflatum. Sometimes an oddity is just an oddity, a desert biologist once told me. But something about desert trumpet’s stem bladders seemed, well, to serve a purpose. Could the bulges be galls, ie, abnormal structures that grow in response to insects laying eggs on a plant or their developing larvae chowing down on its tissues? https://www.adelheidfischer.com/featured-essays daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://www.adelheidfischer.com/featured-essays/small-worlds-etg7j monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/2d8a24e2-c4b5-4ae5-9256-31c33bfc3353/PlatycryptusUndatusFemale.jpeg Featured Essays - Where the Wild Things Are - Jumping spider. Photo: Kevincollins123, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1668720739506-KZCYEY4HDP6SARJPXSO6/1_bfn-xUP36-FIeXE3Rgp9lw.jpg Featured Essays - Where the Wild Things Are - Make it stand out Photos: Victor Surovec https://www.adelheidfischer.com/featured-essays/blog-post-title-four-a2xyt-ztz95 monthly 0.5 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/8ef8a1ca-8880-4a6b-a503-16bddf762cf8/fischer-04-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Frank Gohlke, Aerial view: landslide-debris-flow area, looking east towards Spirit Lake. Five miles north of Mount St. Helens. 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/657cb362-32e9-485c-a19a-6e414807a104/fischer-07-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Lava dome and eastern flank, Approximately two miles east of Mount St. Helens , 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/aefd9817-a468-45fd-bb8a-1ee6498a6e65/fischer-06-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Norway Pass looking east, Approximately seven miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. Buzzy Sullivan, Norway Pass looking east, Approximately seven miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/ea99217a-5440-47dd-a795-e9a4a7b7464b/fischer-02-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Frank Gohlke, Goldwater Creek seeks a new course. Northern edge of landslide-debris flow, six miles northwest of Mount St. Helens. 1981. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a6be9812-359e-475f-bd8f-274dd4ac41cc/fischer-18-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Taking a rest near an alder thicket, Approximately three miles north of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/6fdb3bfb-a5bc-480b-815c-f1859ab38f78/fischer-10-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, North Fork Toutle River through smoke from the Diamond Creek wildfire, Approximately six miles northwest of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/b1c2be6d-cb5b-4506-ab67-bfac9acc0c03/fischer-11-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Sun burning through near Bear Meadows, Approximately sixteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/d18c47d4-8e3d-4e9f-8964-dbea97d3b894/fischer-08-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Early evening moon near the entrance of the monument, Approximately fifteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/863e2e02-e1ef-4ea0-bf09-92302f62e2d1/fischer-14-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Volcanic bomb and dust from landslide, Approximately one mile north of the lava dome, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/ffaeed7a-97af-4e6a-a05b-fe4d8ec0cedb/fischer-13-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Throwing rocks above Bean Creek, Approximately twelve miles east of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/49847b49-15c7-43cf-8666-23b30030448f/fischer-17-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Standing Dead over two exposures, Approximately eleven miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/97148a14-300c-43ae-b3ee-8dcb1ee07a8c/fischer-02-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Alder thicket on the pumice plain, Approximately one mile north of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/f8f7b08b-b494-4357-aabe-57f58655da74/fischer-01-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona, 2001. Frank Gohlke, View of Mount St. Helens crater from Independence Pass. Approximately ten miles northeast of Mount St. Helens. 1981. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1b1d4f6a-445a-42f9-823c-fb8a0f6150dd/fischer-03-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Regrowth and planted trees, Approximately fourteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. Buzzy Sullivan, Regrowth and planted trees, Approximately fourteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/cf6d8227-7875-4174-8bb7-3d34dd6fe665/fischer-04-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Blowdown zone along Forest Service Road 99, Approximately six miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/e21ba0bd-5e39-44bc-af21-e219a426d33c/fischer-05-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Man behind beached log, South shore of Spirit Lake, Approximately four miles north of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/91175d2f-f052-40d6-b5d9-90b0c2440322/fischer-06-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Make it stand out Frank Gohlke, Timber salvage in valley of Clearwater Creek. Thirteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens. 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1667498805478-N10Y8JVXFF84K24IC96W/fischer-03-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Make it stand out Frank Gohlke, Rockfall inside Mount St. Helens crater. 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/e4d77a71-6919-490b-86df-1426a0747526/fischer-19-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Boulder and stream on the pumice plain Approximately one half mile north of the lava dome, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/6f8ee84f-b50f-41ea-a729-a0e47e4041b5/fischer-09-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Dogs Head after rock slide, Approximately two miles east of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/89631910-43c6-445f-9593-fdeea2d90ab4/fischer-12-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Sun illuminating the forest near Bear Meadows, Approximately sixteen miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a9786470-9ccc-446e-a2db-4cb2b9e82165/fischer-07-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Make it stand out Frank Gohlke, Valley of Clearwater Creek. Thirteen miles northeast of mount St. Helens. 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a81e6658-bb10-4789-abae-17a4572ee41c/fischer-15-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Standing dead on the boundary of the blowdown zone, Approximately ten miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/d75e1fb9-81ba-40b9-b876-d721c2358c97/fischer-01-sullivan.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Mountain goats grazing, Approximately one half mile north of the lava dome, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/b3f6eded-3eeb-434c-93bb-5d94a0afe7d4/fischer-16-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Buzzy Sullivan, Loowit Falls, Approximately one mile north of the lava dome, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/9e9e020f-34fd-4a95-904b-0d2c21db1812/fischer-05-gohlke.jpeg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Make it stand out Frank Gohlke, Forest Service naturalist approaching Mount St. Helens from the north, one mile and 4,00 vertical feet from the crater. 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1836e69b-5cc4-4396-8442-b3bbda699d37/fischer-20-sullivan.jpg Featured Essays - What Happens After the Worst Happens? - Make it stand out Buzzy Sullivan, Morning full moon from near Independence Pass, Approximately eight miles northwest of Mount St. Helens, 2017. https://www.adelheidfischer.com/featured-essays/blog-post-title-one-gwlsw-97j2b monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/1762204213969-IPV21SV2AH2K98HTLIVG/Documenting+the+Undocumented+Migrants.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented This sweater belonged to an unidentified male migrant, who died from unknown causes in the Table Top Wilderness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/df97f784-824a-4d89-8ea3-38391c15ca42/James-Migrants-01.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The remains of many migrants have been found along major highways. Here the corpse of an unidentified male was found along Route 10, at Mile Marker 163. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/0b26782e-c1bf-4515-8482-21448b84d656/James-Migrants-05.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented This hat, found near Ajo, Arizona, belonged to an unknown migrant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/69c448f4-6077-4930-aad4-beaa3def9777/James-Migrants-06.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Migrants often seek relief from dehydration along the canals in Casa Grande, south of Phoenix. Here one man, unidentified, was too weak to climb the walls and fell back into the water and drowned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/cad5fc1d-2382-4121-b2c0-8ee42301f368/James-Migrants-08.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Jose Rosario Mendoza Torres, age 22, drowned in this canal south of Stanfield, Arizona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/f537ca2b-01ae-49c3-92a0-78ddc438dda4/James-Migrants-09.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Pieces of clothing, often with the logos of U.S. sports teams, are strewn along the trails throughout the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/afa02007-23cd-408a-b7ca-434d8d051653/James-Migrants-10.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The tire tracks were left by the truck of a Medical Examiner who recovered the remains of an unidentified male in 2015; the cause of death was probably hypothermia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/52ab1452-4d5d-4b07-8e0b-0ee03ef3d3ce/James-Migrants-11.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented On Easter morning we discovered the shallow grave of a male migrant. The dead saguaro marks the spot where the remains of the decomposing corpse were recovered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/68c000a6-858f-435f-b49f-e9772d49f40a/James-Migrants-11a.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Just outside the mouth of the cave, we found the dead migrant’s atlas vertebra: the first vertebra of the spinal column. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/58d63033-036a-4636-99e9-7986b404dcaa/James-Migrants-11b.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented This was likely the dead migrant’s last view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/f9844683-049b-4e2d-b95b-0b5117daf64d/James-Migrants-12.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Anaya Longoria Jesus Edel, age 30, died in 2007 near the intersection of Amarillo Valley Road and Papago Road, in Maricopa, Arizona, from blunt force trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/b3ab2d63-9150-4c48-9e42-11711837e208/James-Migrants-12a.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented We found this dove at the site where Anaya Longoria Jesus Edel’s body was found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/5ee753b1-4ce2-458a-9582-43f1c0aefbff/James-Migrants-13.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented An unidentified male migrant died here, probably from exposure, in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, about two miles from Route 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/8d4d87c2-1532-416b-b3a6-03344a6ee20f/James-Migrants-14.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The remains of an unidentified male migrant who drowned in a nearby canal were found at the edge of this concrete formation in Casa Grande. These formations were once used to calibrate the positions of satellites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a79dc4ca-401e-41e5-84b0-9fce6064010d/James-Migrants-15.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented This cross marks the site where an unidentified male migrant died. These makeshift memorials are increasingly common in the southern Arizona desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/5ade40a3-5273-4d7e-b4f2-766f124aa1c8/James-Migrants-16.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Justino Mendez Ramos, age 45, died here, probably of hypothermia due to exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/e9fab66a-815a-46ef-9122-d0c40912bdbd/James-Migrants-17.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Jose Lara-Avila, age 19, died here of hyperthermia due to exposure. His remains were found in an empty lot yards from a house full of people in Ajo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/ba0dc35e-89fb-41e1-9d6a-cb9ae44db684/James-Migrants-18.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Camouflage clothing is often found along active migrant trails. Camo pants, shirts, and booties are sold in Mexican border towns, marketed to those planning to cross into the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/8bb4e790-bbba-4577-bdaa-dd2d01cc51ee/James-Migrants-19.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Black water bottles are sold in Mexican border towns. The bottles, which don’t reflect moonlight, are carried by many migrants; and empty bottles are found often in the borderlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/38336272-ef22-436d-852c-43f415568cee/James-Migrants-32.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Water bottle found near Pipeline Road, Ajo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a6ea2c56-4118-454e-a2d8-88ea626ec480/James-Migrants-20.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The skeletal remains of an unidentified male were found here, a few miles from Ajo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/6483a787-6cc5-43c7-89d0-67d04acd612a/James-Migrants-02.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Many migrants die of hypothermia when crossing the Sonoran Desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/f0b72e1b-24c4-4440-a2aa-87d1683f5094/James-Migrants-21.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The skeletal remains of Villa Puebla Gilberto, age 38, were found here, in the desert between Ajo and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/b0f2e8aa-82c2-446b-aad8-43c244a0f260/James-Migrants-22.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Migrants cut holes in their shoes to alleviate the pain of walking for many days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/59655b78-f41a-48a6-ac66-7d3e8d6e8425/James-Migrants-23.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The skeletal remains of Christian Campos Santos, age 18, were found near Stanfield, Arizona, 50 miles south of Phoenix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/b25cdb57-d396-41b1-83ab-5b2851a4524d/James-Migrants-24.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The red light is intended to serve as an emergency beacon for migrants in need of water or help. In practice it is often Border Patrol agents who respond. One night I watched agents search for illegal migrants for hours, as black helicopters flew overhead from east to west and trucks cut across the desert from north to south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/a995709a-a969-4ddd-8541-24bf6afebfaa/James-Migrants-25.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented The skeletal remains of an unidentified migrant male were found here, in the desert between Tucson and Casa Granda, near Picacho Peak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/3320f8d2-a7fc-411e-9b85-0c1d7426e128/James-Migrants-26.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Jose de Jesus Isabel, age 33, died here of hypothermia due to exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/08c204ac-c305-4f89-9a75-d456c8bb77be/James-Migrants-27.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Jose Carlos Carmona-Para, age 42, died here of hypothermia due to exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/eb8a6bec-f0dc-409e-b4e6-1ec3181298c4/James-Migrants-29.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented An unidentified female migrant died here from drowning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/bf36ebdf-14ce-4723-aa24-a5f3623e3f19/James-Migrants-30.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Leonardo Mendoza Clavijo, age 23, died here from blunt force trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6356ca1740f74716bd624f62/c2317d03-2462-42c6-93e0-cfbc86700afe/James-Migrants-03.jpg Featured Essays - Documenting the Undocumented Just east of Gila Bend, on Route 8, we saw a man lying on his side on the edge of the road, waving his hat and whispering, “agua, agua.” We called 911 and the Highway Patrol arrived quickly. 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