-
Visit to the Brenda Solar Energy Zone
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 19 at 4:08:11 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6pe
I went, I took some photos, I came back. I was really only able to explore the southwest corner of the site. I’ll be going back to look at the rest of the tract, especially as we get a chance of fall bloom. The ocotillos I saw were in full leaf,
… (continues) -
Ground-truthing The Wilderness Society
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 17 at 10:46:30 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2oeAs background, here’s a longish quote from the Facebook page of our friends at Basin and Range Watch:
… (continues)Not long ago, joining an environmental organization seemed like a rational thing to do if you had a busy schedule and didn’t have the time to be
-
Continental Divide
By Chris Clarke on 2009 12 01 at 6:31:28 pm | 2 commentsBorderlands, Continental Divide produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology from iLCP on Vimeo.
[Cut-n-pasted from the originating site:]
… (continues)The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with
-
Spat
By Chris Clarke on 2009 11 07 at 12:21:39 pm | 7 comments
By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)
-
Fire
By Chris Clarke on 2009 09 04 at 3:33:53 pm | 1 commentThe largest fire in Los Angeles County history was apparently set on purpose.
Outside the fire zone itself, the result downwind is still dramatic and deadly. Even as far away as Northern Arizona, the results of the fire are what you might call
-
A little bit of Earth Day green
By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 22 at 10:32:34 pm | 5 comments
Rainstorm clearing, evening, just west of … (continues) -
Regarding the Mexican Wolf
By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 15 at 11:34:47 pm | 7 comments
Taking a break from educating the public at the Arizona-Sonora Desert MuseumI’ve been quiet here for a little bit. Some of the reason is that I’ve been busy with a couple of other projects, one of which I’ll be saying more about here in a few
… (continues) -
Jaguar press conference video
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 11 at 2:57:41 pm | 0 commentsVia Arizona Game and Fish, a press conference held Thursday March 5 in Tucson to discuss the unfortunate demise of Macho B, the only jaguar known to have lived recently in the US.
-
Jaguar update
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 3:50:45 pm | 4 commentsLooks like I was wrong in saying Macho B was lucky he was collared. I’d thought it had saved him from an agonizing death by kidney failure. Turns out the capturing and sedation caused his kidney failure.
From Kieran Suckling at the Center for
… (continues) -
RIP Macho B
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 03 at 2:31:02 pm | 5 comments
… (continues)Sad news involving Macho B, the jaguar recently collared and re-released in southern Arizona. Unfortunately, the big cat had to be euthanized today after veterinarians determined that he was in severe and unrecoverable kidney failure, a common
-
Groundwater mining
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 02 at 1:48:45 pm | 0 commentsArizona’s state geologist Lee Allison and I spoke about his submitting a piece on groundwater mining and subsidence to the Carnival of the Arid, and then—most likely due to my being less clear about timing than I ought have been—his post wasn’t
… (continues) -
US National Park Meme
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 12 at 11:42:15 am | 18 commentsI call the Mojave National Preserve “The Park” as often as not, but I’m painfully aware that it isn’t one. The difference between “Preserve” and “Park” status? Hunting is allowed in National Preserves. Letting hunters shoot things in the Preserve
… (continues) -
Rock wren
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 10 at 6:33:19 pm | 0 comments
At Puerco Ruins, Petrified Forest National Park, November … (continues)
-
Pronghorn
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 29 at 10:41:52 pm | 0 comments
at Petrified Forest National … (continues)
-
Letters from the desert: Seeing stars
By Chris Clarke on 2008 09 05 at 1:08:10 am | 0 commentsAnother sunset, another sky over the Clark and Ivanpah ranges turned by imperceptible increment from deep blue to blood red, the slow tilting of earth and air erasing shade after subtle shade from sky. Soon all that is left is sanguinary. Soon that
… (continues)
… (continues)
… (continues)
Buyables
-
Natalie on “10 random things I remember”
February 06 2012 - 9:57:12 -
Jim on “10 random things I remember”
February 03 2012 - 11:58:09 -
Wild_Bill on “On "exploding saltpeter": a correction”
February 03 2012 - 7:05:12 -
Wild_Bill on “10 random things I remember”
February 03 2012 - 6:59:45 -
Sherwood Harrington on “10 random things I remember”
February 03 2012 - 5:05:41 -
Sherwood Harrington on “10 random things I remember”
February 03 2012 - 4:08:51 -
KathyF on “10 random things I remember”
February 03 2012 - 3:52:34 -
Vern on “Rejected Susan G. Komen Promotional Copy”
February 03 2012 - 3:08:16 -
Steve Gyetko on “Rejected Susan G. Komen Promotional Copy”
February 03 2012 - 9:55:10 -
Ken Erickson on “About Chris”
February 02 2012 - 3:21:06
Flickr
