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Peninsular Bighorn Sheep
By Chris Clarke on 2011 05 29 at 8:20:46 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8Qd
A zoo photo, but I like it nonetheless. That’s partly because the zoo enclosure essentially consists of a fence across a corner of actual bighorn habitat. This is kinda the patron saint endangered species of the hills around here. (The
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Feeding the bighorn
By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 15 at 11:55:44 am | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2BcSomething I knew even before moving here was that the local trails have ardent defenders. A recent land exchange, for example, between the BLM and the local Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians had trail user groups up in arms; the land at issue
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Letters from the desert: Dark
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 29 at 7:26:11 am | 0 commentsA few hundred miles of desert two-lane at night, no radio nor moon nor competing traffic to interfere with the cascade of thought, and the dark folds itself in around my pallid headlamps. The high-beams have developed a disconcerting tendency to go
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