Coyote Crossing

Stop the NRA’s assault on condors

Photo by Just Chaos

[Cut and pasted from the Center for Biological Diversity’s press release]

The National Rifle Association is gunning for America’s largest and most endangered bird—the condor.

Calling us “extremists” for trying to stop the

Settling in

Though my ex- did get Thistle through the worst of his head tilt it’s still disconcerting. To himself most of all. He’s disoriented, his sense of balance is affected, and it’s clear whatever is causing the head tilt involves some discomfort.

The

Everyone’s moving to Hollywood these days

Settling into his new … (continues)

Deer Medicine

“That is their medicine,” she said. “They offer themselves up.”

She was speaking of hunting, and so I disregarded her words when they came to me, second-hand. Slob hunters are slob hunters, rednecks in the Adirondacks or wannabe-healers in

Thistle

Word arrives this morning that he’s feeling better. Thanks to those of you who’ve asked after him, and sent good wishes.

Looking for some email about him just now, I found this old comment I made to someone a few years back in a thread about

Hang in there, Thistle

A note comes from the dear ex: the rabbit is very sick and she faces a difficult decision.

Thank you, Thistle, for bringing me joy and occasional bites.

Thank you, Becky, for tending … (continues)

Reptile Squee Time

I can has cheesebush?

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Yeah, I want his job.

By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 23 at 11:25:29 am | 4 comments

Via my … (continues)

I can haz roadrunner egg?

By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 18 at 11:19:12 am | 6 comments

Coyote pup, photo by John Good, National Park Service … (continues)

Seen

By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 10 at 5:42:47 pm | 6 comments

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J’accuse!

By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 06 at 2:04:59 pm | 7 comments

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Random corroboration

By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 31 at 12:49:59 pm | 2 comments

You find some nice things when you set up a Google Alert for the name of your … (continues)

Chat transcript, 6/26/07

By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 19 at 5:45:08 pm | 7 comments

creekrnningnorth (3:35:43 AM): yes, I do sometimes talk to the air. Why do you ask?
creekrnningnorth (3:36:32 AM): there is air everywhere: one is thus never alone.
creekrnningnorth (3:37:00 AM): thin air in the fringes of space,
creekrnningnorth

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How I feel after the last week of coding

By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 25 at 12:20:14 am | 1 comment

I was gonna photoshop a keyboard and trackball under his fingers there, but I’m too … (continues)

Late-Breaking Pleistocene Desert Woodrat News

By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 08 at 7:04:36 am | 1 comment

A woodrat in Utah’s Great Basin is surrounded by toxic juniper leaves, which is much of its diet. Credit: Denise Dearing, University of Utah

As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer between 18,700 and 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what

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About me

I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

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