Wow, where did the summer go? It seems like just yesterday I was waking up to some lovely dawn choruses and now many of the birds have already migrated south. With breeding season over, even most of the resident birds have quieted down, so the steppe and woods surrounding my home are much quieter now. […]
I take my dog for a walk almost everyday, usually to a chunk of BLM land on the east side of town. The city and BLM have created a small recreation area there, with many trails winding up and around a mountain. The trails are in a stand of big sage, an ancient stand where
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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
