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Shrine for the Desert Box Turtle
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...
Fallugia in a Book
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is common around our little homestead and beyond. There are even thickets of it all along the banks of the...
Mountain Nine Bark
I meant to talk a little more about the leaves of Physocarpus monogynus. I did say that they resemble the leaves of a currant...
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A Petey Reminiscence
Sonoran Desert Milipede
This poem was originally written as part of the 2012 poetic inventory of the Saguaro National Monument East. Writers, poets and at least one...
Snoozing Squash Bees
Squash bees are out early in the morning and moving pollen around well before honey bees even arrive. Research done by the Department of...