Monitoring

Late winter soundscape in the Sonoran Desert

As a follow-up to my last post about the tardiness of migration this last spring, I wanted to use our trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument as an example.  Lang Elliott and I recorded recorded here in late March of 2017.  The expected compliment of birds was there, behaving as I’d come to expect […]

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Spring arrives at Stillwater

Spring is taking its good old time arriving in northern Nevada, and everything seems a bit behind schedule.  I recently headed over to Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge to see how things were progressing.  The birds at the refuge were not waiting – they were in full breeding mode, which means making a lot of racket. 

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Burned forest in the Chiricahua Mtns.

Chiricahuas Revisited

The Chiricahua Mountains are one of the largest of the “Sky Island” ranges that separate the Sierra Madre of Mexico from the Rocky Mountains of the US and Canada.  It is a rich, convoluted mountain range, and like most of the adjacent ranges, high in plant and animal diversity.  These ranges are subject to frequent wildfires, and

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The changing soundscapes of Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe holds a special place in my heart.  As a teenager, I swam in its frigid waters, cross-country skied on it’s slopes, spent a night or two sleeping on its beaches, backpacked it’s wilderness, and even spent a couple of summers working in a state park on its northern shores.  I’ve marveled at its

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San Pedro River

San Pedro River Soliloquy

It whispers, gurgles, laughs and chortles, this sliver of a creek flowing north from Mexico toward the Gila River.  On this lovely day in April, the San Pedro River still flows through the sandy banks, but within a month or so it will begin to dry up, except for isolated pools and stretches near the

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