Coyote Crossing

Visit to the Brenda Solar Energy Zone

I went, I took some photos, I came back. I was really only able to explore the southwest corner of the site. I’ll be going back to look at the rest of the tract, especially as we get a chance of fall bloom. The ocotillos I saw were in full leaf,

Ground-truthing The Wilderness Society

As background, here’s a longish quote from the Facebook page of our friends at Basin and Range Watch:

Not long ago, joining an environmental organization seemed like a rational thing to do if you had a busy schedule and didn’t have the time to be

Continental Divide

Borderlands, Continental Divide produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology from iLCP on Vimeo.

[Cut-n-pasted from the originating site:]

The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with

Spat

By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)

Fire

The largest fire in Los Angeles County history was apparently set on purpose.

Outside the fire zone itself, the result downwind is still dramatic and deadly. Even as far away as Northern Arizona, the results of the fire are what you might call

A little bit of Earth Day green

Rainstorm clearing, evening, just west of … (continues)

Regarding the Mexican Wolf

Taking a break from educating the public at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

I’ve been quiet here for a little bit. Some of the reason is that I’ve been busy with a couple of other projects, one of which I’ll be saying more about here in a few

Ocotillo blossoms

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Jaguar press conference video

Via Arizona Game and Fish, a press conference held Thursday March 5 in Tucson to discuss the unfortunate demise of Macho B, the only jaguar known to have lived recently in the US.

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Jaguar update

By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 3:50:45 pm | 4 comments

Looks like I was wrong in saying Macho B was lucky he was collared. I’d thought it had saved him from an agonizing death by kidney failure. Turns out the capturing and sedation caused his kidney failure.

From Kieran Suckling at the Center for

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RIP Macho B

By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 03 at 2:31:02 pm | 5 comments

Sad news involving Macho B, the jaguar recently collared and re-released in southern Arizona. Unfortunately, the big cat had to be euthanized today after veterinarians determined that he was in severe and unrecoverable kidney failure, a common

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Groundwater mining

By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 02 at 1:48:45 pm | 0 comments

Arizona’s state geologist Lee Allison and I spoke about his submitting a piece on groundwater mining and subsidence to the Carnival of the Arid, and then—most likely due to my being less clear about timing than I ought have been—his post wasn’t

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US National Park Meme

By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 12 at 11:42:15 am | 18 comments

I call the Mojave National Preserve “The Park” as often as not, but I’m painfully aware that it isn’t one. The difference between “Preserve” and “Park” status? Hunting is allowed in National Preserves. Letting hunters shoot things in the Preserve

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Noshing Pronghorn

By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 18 at 1:43:58 am | 1 comment

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Rock wren

By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 10 at 6:33:19 pm | 0 comments

At Puerco Ruins, Petrified Forest National Park, November … (continues)

Pronghorn

By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 29 at 10:41:52 pm | 0 comments

at Petrified Forest National … (continues)

Letters from the desert: Seeing stars

By Chris Clarke on 2008 09 05 at 1:08:10 am | 0 comments

Another sunset, another sky over the Clark and Ivanpah ranges turned by imperceptible increment from deep blue to blood red, the slow tilting of earth and air erasing shade after subtle shade from sky. Soon all that is left is sanguinary. Soon that

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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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