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VIDEO: In The Field - Life on the Sonoran Desert Devil's Highway

January 09, 2017

VIDEO: In The Field - Life on the Sonoran Desert Devil's Highway

Take a trip to Arizona to see what a Texas Tech wetlands ecology researcher is doing in the Sonoran Desert. It's tough work especially when you're doing it in triple digit temperatures, within an air force bombing range, and in a land known to locals as the "Devil's Highway." The Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range makes up part of the Sonoran Desert, a hot landscape that stretches across Southern Arizona near the Mexico border.