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A Road Across the Grassland
There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or...
Pinus discolor
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30...
Magical Desert Tour
Can you believe I was whining about rainfall? It’s funny because as Ms. Mesquitey and I were driving to and from Cascabel we talked...
Claude the Burnt Mouse
Well, first of all I should explain why I set live traps for pack rats (Neotoma albigula) around our little homestead or maybe it...
Petey’s Fall Hunt and Gather
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably rolling in his grave...
Mearns Quail and Mexican Blue Oaks
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has...