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Going in circles

In early September, 2016, it was time to head back to my home in Arizona, after visiting my dad in northern Nevada for most of the summer.  A friend working in Glacier National Park invited me to visit her, so I decided to make a big road trip out of it, traveling to eastern Nevada, eastern […]

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White pelican on Catnip Reservoir

The white pelican

I had the good fortune in mid-July of this last summer to visit the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in far northwestern Nevada.  Along with it’s sister refuge, Oregon’s Hart Mountain Refuge, it preserves a wonderful chunk of Great Basin habitat.  Wide, open volcanic mesas and corrugated drainages stretch to the horizon.  It is an important

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