When I think of Thailand, I tend to think of crowded, noisy cities like Bangkok, or the tsunami-prone beaches of western Thailand. But beyond the cities and beaches, Thailand has a number of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries that protect wild forests, canyons, and their inhabitants. Places so dense, so remote, so wild that tigers, […]
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Wildlife refuges are some of my favorite places. Little pockets of wild that provide critical habitat, they are usually great places to see and hear wildlife. On my frequent trips to northern Nevada, I try to get to Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge near Fallon on each visit. Stillwater is part of a complex of refuges
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When you travel alone, like I usually do, its important to know your own physical limits as well as the limits of your equipment. The latter became an issue for me when I attempted to go exploring in the Henry Mountains of Utah this last summer. I’ve had my eye on the Henry’s for awhile;
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On my June road trip from southern Arizona to northern Nevada, I made a stop just southwest of Ely, Nevada. Ely is surrounded by interesting mountain ranges, such as the Egan, Schell Creek, and Snake Ranges, some of which I’ve written about in previous posts. On this trip I picked the White Pine Range to
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Humans have had a long, uncomfortable relationship with wolves. Revered, feared, hated, and persecuted to within an inch of extinction, their survival to this day says more about their resilience than our ability to understand and tolerate what we are now learning to be one of the most important predators in the northern hemisphere. We
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Close to the US-Mexico border, where New Mexico and Arizona meet Chihuahua and Sonora, lies one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. More than a dozen small mountain ranges rise from the surrounding desert, and are often referred to as “Sky Islands”, as their forested slopes appear to be islands in a sea of grassland and
Just east of Tucson, a collection of small creeks come together to form Pantano Wash, which winds its way through Tucson before eventually joining the Gila River, which flows across the state to the Colorado River. Most of these little creeks only flow during summer floods or occasionally during a wet winter. However, one of
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I’ve been hearing about Bosque del Apache for years: this wondrous wildlife refuge in the center of New Mexico that hosts thousands of wintering snow geese, sandhill cranes, other waterfowl, and even a few dozen whooping cranes. The sight and sounds of tens of thousands of snow geese taking off at dawn as they leave
The monsoon season in southeastern Arizona extends from early July to late September, and usually means hot and humid weather with frequent thunderstorms. The thunderstorms seem to be the definition of chaotic systems, so you never quite know where they will appear or how much rain they will produce. This rainy season, an extension of
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