Petey thinks pocket gophers are very cute. A huh.
Pocket gophers are amazing rodents, spending almost all of their life underground in the tunnels they build. How deep are the tunnels and how far do they go? I’ve observed water in an irrigated field disappear down a gopher hole and never fill up. Whoa! Talk about getting water and air into the earth. These rascal are environmental engineers. And even though they can be pesky around your homestead, they are very cute.
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi...
After reading the section about the canyon tree frog (Hyla arenicolor) in my old Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians by Robert Stebbins,...
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only...
