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.
Coyote Crossing-Guard.
Certainly the desert has a beauty all it’s own. Thanks for sharing.
Hard to believe that it is somewhat besieged by development.
Bill
Thanks very much, Chris. And you’re welcome and others as well any time
to come along. I would’ve enjoyed some company the day before this trip
while at Teutonia Peak, 35 degrees and 10-15 mph winds, you know, misery
loves company ;-)Just kidding, I really enjoyed that day!
Thanks, Chris. Really great post by Morongo Bill.
I like Canis Latransient. It’s perfect. And very funny.
I just returned from my trip out there. I can’t believe they want to put a freaking airport in the valley. And why? So more idiots can go to Las Vegas. Obscene.