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.
Nice find.
I know you know this, Chris, but it’s perhaps worth mentioning that The American Naturalist is still published (though it doesn’t carry many flower descriptions any more!).
Really looking forward to the whole book in one holdable paper package.
I miss the days when Am Nat actually published naturalist papers. The journal has become the equivalent of how MTV doesn’t play music videos. I’m uninterested in esoteric theory, but very interested in Joshua tree life history and the like.
Well goodness! I’m on the edge of my seat. You’ve been immeasurably helpful to me—i liked both the original post, which was entirely plausible, and this followup. It takes a big man to admit he’s wrong, friend. You sound awfully smart whether you’re wrong or right, which has to be a plus, right?