Just a note to let folks know that over the next days, when I have time here and there, I’ll be making a few changes which will have the effect of blurring this distinction between this blog and the previous one.

They’ll be design changes rather than editorial, just making the older writing mesh more seamlessly with the site as she is today. It has bugged me increasingly as time passes that people visiting the old site seem never to find their way to anything I’ve written after June 2008. I wanted to make a clean break back then, and I did, but keeping the separation there now seems less and less important, and making it easy for people reading the latest news about Zeke from 2004 to find what I’m up to now seems more important.

So: design potholes may be found ahead. Let me know if anything seems a trifle unadjusted. And I’ll have to find a way to preserve Carl’s beautiful Pleistocene Pinole Creek banner for interested people, which all of you should be.

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   Bill Mcdonald 2011 03 27 at 10:00:35 am

   Chris, I am glad to hear this.

   I came across Creek Running North when I did a google search for Cima Dome, and from there found your Coyote Crossing site.

   Your writing about the Mojave National Preserve and that area, Cima, in particular, inspired me and allowed me to read about a place that has long fascinated and interested me. I discovered on your sites a treasure trove of information on this area, and as I have said to several people that I have turned on to your sites, the best writing that I have found online.

   I , for one, look forward to the joining of the sites, however from personal experience, all I can add, is “back up everything first!”

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   Dave 2011 03 27 at 10:32:12 am

   Good idea, Chris.
   And I’ll have to find a way to preserve Carl’s beautiful Pleistocene Pinole Creek banner for interested people
   Hmm. In WordPress it would be a simple matter of adapting an archival template for the CRN posts with that header, but I’m sure this platform works completely differently. Hope you figure it out. That was a great painting.

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   Chris Clarke 2011 03 27 at 11:59:44 am

   Dave, that is in fact the status quo I’m working to change: CRN has its own ExpressionEngine template with that header. I want to make the separation between the blogs much less distinct than that, however.