This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

For instance, in the lead-up to the 1964 Republican National Convention, the press referred to supporters of the insurgent Arizona conservative Barry Goldwater as " Cactus Jacobins " in their effort to unseat the moderate East Coast branch of the party ( see Rockefeller Republican ).

Contemporary campus landmarks include the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and art gallery, the Stanford Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish.

* Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden

The amusement park failed in 1990, and the Royals left for Arizona and the Cactus League in 2003.

In Arizona there is the Agua Fria National Monument, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Chiricahua National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Montezuma Castle National Monument, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Pipe Spring National Monument, Saguaro National Park, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Tonto National Monument, Tumacacori National Historical Park, Tuzigoot National Monument, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Walnut Canyon National Monument, and the Wupatki National Monument.

In the 1960s Abbey worked as a seasonal park ranger at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border of Arizona and Mexico.

Yucca and Opuntia species are abundant in the central third, while Arizona Rainbow Cactus ( Echinocereus polyacanthus ) and Mexican Fire-barrel Cactus ( Ferocactus pilosus ) inhabit the southernmost portion.

It lies near the western border of the Tohono O ' Odham Indian Reservation and due north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Southern Arizona.

Delaware Valley Good Government Association ( Philadelphia ), San Franciscans for Good Government ( California ), Beaver PAC ( Wisconsin ), Cactus PAC ( Arizona ), and Icepac ( New York ) are examples of former AIPAC front groups.

* ( When It's ) Cactus Time in Arizona

The teams in Arizona make up the Cactus League, while the teams in Florida play in the Grapefruit League.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U. S. National Monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona which shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora.

* Mammillaria grahamii – Arizona Fishhook Cactus

Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has

In 1936, they formed the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society ( ACNFS ) to sponsor a botanical garden to encourage an understanding, appreciation and promotion of the uniqueness of the world ’ s deserts, particularly our Sonoran Desert.

Garden benefactor Gertrude Webster served as president of the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society ’ s first Board of Directors and Gustaf Starck was one of five vice presidents, who included W. E. Walker, Rell Haskett, L. L. Kriegbaum, and Samuel Wilson, who also served as Treasurer.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox formerly utilized the park for Cactus League games each March and had their minor league complexes on-site.

The deal was partly funded by the state, which wants to prevent any more major league teams from migrating to the Cactus League in Arizona for spring training.

The grant fund was set up to prevent any more major league teams from migrating to the Cactus League in Arizona for spring training.

$ 12 million of the renovations were funded by the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority, a municipal corporation charged with funding renovations of Cactus League stadiums throughout Maricopa County.

The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was a non-profit botanical garden, located at 8 Cactus Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, USA, containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert plant life.

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

Clockwise from top left: Student Services Building, Diné College ; cougar exhibit, Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park | Navajo Nation Zoo ; shopping center near Navajo, New Mexico ; notice of reserved parking, Window Rock, Arizona | Window Rock

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

He was a research botanist with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona after 1971.

* Butterfly Magic, Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona

* Marshall Butterfly Pavilion, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona

The Desert Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona 85008, USA.

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

Tucson Botanical Gardens is a collection of 16 residentially scaled gardens located at 2150 North Alvernon Way, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

The other members of the Advisory Council are: Mr. Nils Bruzelius, Executive Editor and Vice-President for Publications, Environmental Working Group, Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Ph. D., vice president of scientific affairs and distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases, Eli Lilly and Company ; Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google ; Ambassador James Franklin Collins, director and senior associate and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Rita Colwell, Chairman and President of CosmosID ; Dr. Loren R. Graham, professor of history and science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Dr. William V. Harris, president and CEO of the Science Foundation Arizona ; Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, senior fellow and former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, Professor of Civil / Environmental Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California ; Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph. D., former president and CEO of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; and Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park is located in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation.

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

Category: Botanical gardens in Arizona

She sang at Covent Garden and entertained troops in north Africa during World War Two, before moving to Arizona, USA until her husband's death after which she returned to Aylsham to live with her sisters.

Charles " Buffalo " Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, Kansas, after meeting with Goodnight in Texas, also bred cattalo, or beefalo, on a ranch near Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona.

* Japanese Friendship Garden ( Phoenix, Arizona )

Life in the desert is explored in the Native Crops Garden, which illustrates the prehistoric agricultural practices in Central and Southern Arizona.

Many of Krutch's manuscripts and typescripts are held by the University of Arizona, where the Joseph Wood Krutch Cactus Garden was named in his honor in 1980.

*" The Joseph Wood Krutch Cactus Garden ", University of Arizona Alumnus magazine, Spring 2002.