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The Borderlands are Delicious
Okay, I’m being a little snooty by making fun of the cook who thinks there are male and female eggplants and actually I had...
Lanius ludovicianus
In birder lingo loggerhead shrikes are uncommon in southeastern Arizona. Some winters and springs it seems there is a shrike on every other fence...
Okie Dokie Artichokie
The kidneywood found in SE Arizona, SW New Mexico and down into Sonora is Eysenhardtia orthocarpa. It’s common in the Mule Mountains around Bisbee...
Borderlands Jaguar
I originally wrote Borderlands Jaguar while driving up to Tucson to do a presentation for the Center for Biological Diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/). I wrote it...
Anemone tuberosa
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s probably just...
Varmints in the grassland
Tumbleweed and careless weed are here to stay and though careless weed is an Arizona native (Amaranthus palmeri) it certainly appears, at least to...