Coyote Crossing

This is what happens when it rains in the desert
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 24 at 10:19:26 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6ve

Ya got yer desert trees, most of ‘em legumes, like this ironwood here.

There’s very little usable nitrogen in the soil in the desert. Plants need nitrogen for crucial metabolic processes, chief among them making amino acids and proteins. Without
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Up to the elbows
By Chris Clarke on 2011 05 10 at 12:50:16 am | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9Jd

My friend Susan posted a photo on Facebook this week of herself planting a tree in her Minnesota town, part of a campaign to plant a thousand of them. It’s a sweet photo. She squats at the base of the tree, one begloved hand on the ground as if to
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By A Nail
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 05 at 6:25:51 pm | 9 comments

A running coyote, painting by Carl Dennis Buell

The ancestor of all dogs climbed trees like a cat.

Or so the experts hypothesize. The raccoon-sized, foxy omnivore Prohesperocyon is as likely a candidate for the ancestor of all dogs, wolves and
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