In an ongoing effort to better understand the life cycle of saguaros, and what, if any, threats are fatal to them, Saguaro National Park officials are conducting a saguaro census in the park and are looking for help.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in finding that grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem should remain a threatened species, has ruled that federal wildlife biologists were wrong when they concluded the decline of whitebark pine trees was not detrimental to the bears' future.