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Pleuraphis rigida: knitting the desert together
By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 12 at 10:42:25 am | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7X
Left: Big galleta fills a wash in the Southern California portion of the Sonoran Desert. [A preview of a piece I wrote for El Paisano, the newsletter of the Desert Protective Council.]
In April, Desert Protective Council staff and several
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Joshua tree book intro, draft version
By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 13 at 2:26:22 pm | 7 comments
… (continues)This won’t stay up forever, given what I want to use it for, but I thought I would share. I wrote this earlier this week in a fit of writing-fit writing, read it (or more accurately, handed it to an actor to read, and he did so wonderfully well) at -
Diorama-rama
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 27 at 11:16:54 pm | 5 comments
[photo, left: Dead porcupine, Los Angeles]One thing about the home I left this year, the SF Bay Area: The science museums there will spoil you but good. The flagship is the California Academy of Sciences, for whose erstwhile publication I
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Letters from the desert: Thresholds
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 08 at 12:31:13 am | 0 commentsCreosote bush, Larrea tridentata, grows in the lower elevations of the Mojave. At least it does so in places where the soil is not too alkaline. In the flattest part of this valley nothing grows, and the fringes of the dry lake are the domain of
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