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.
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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Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.
Another not so funny joke by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It doesn’t take funds to list a species, whether plant or animal. It does take funds to enforce the action, but that’s another issue.
Meanwhile they spend millions and millions of dollars trying to restore salmon to warm rivers in the Northeast with almost no results at all.
Reprioritizing their use of money is always an option. Too bad politics is the real culprit.
On the other hand you could possibly get the state to list this wonderful bird.
Bill
Thank you for your timely posting.
Chris, take a look at my blog, Sage to Meadow, if you will. I go in a slightly different direction from you, but read my “About Sage to Meadow Blog” and see how I am trying to save a natural world out there and people within it. Thanks.