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Annette McGivney

Annette McGivney is an award-winning writer who has been drawn to remote, wild places her entire life. She has been southwest editor for Backpacker magazine since 1996 and a member of the journalism faculty at Northern Arizona University since 2002.

Jessie Byrd, manager for the Pima County Native Plant Nursery in Tucson, holds a Ariocarpus fissuratus, a rare plant that was confiscated from someone crossing the border.
Environment

Inside the Fight Against the Growing Cactus Black Market

The booming succulent market is creating wide-scale theft of cacti from national parks. Can microchip tracking solve the problem?

By Annette McGivney