Petey finds a young abandoned peccary under a mesquite tree and looks up just in time to see a large group of peccaries disappearing into the grassland. “Those critters aren’t coming back,” he quietly muttered and stared at the beautiful creature at his feet.
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane...
In the early 1990s when this story and song came about I was poking around the West Branch starting at Ajo Road and north...
The better common name for Terrapene ornata luteola is the ornate box turtle. The name desert box turtle is old like me….not Miocene old…maybe...
