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Sagebrush Singers

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. […]

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Sagebrush Soliloquy

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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White Pine Range, Nevada

Wild horses in the Great Basin

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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