Coyote Crossing

Continental Divide

Borderlands, Continental Divide produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology from iLCP on Vimeo.

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The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with

Desire Lines

Longing defines the storied heart. Contentment is pleasant enough, but it kills story. “And they lived happily ever after.” Fukuyama arrived at this realization, though his dystopia — unlike those of Orwell or Huxley — was unintended. But he knew

Published

I have neglected to mention that I have a piece in the third and most recent issue of the desert-oriented literary magazine Phantom Seed. My fellow publishees include Mary Sojourner, Mike Cipra, editor Ruth Nolan, Deborah Kolodji and a host of

Live Action Shot

A photo by my pal Michele: yours truly reading some of my work at the Desert Protective Council annual membership meeting last Sunday at Whitewater Canyon Preserve. (In the foreground, my favorite person in the … (continues)

Tell BLM to protect the Red Rock country

[As long as I’m pasting in activist alerts today, here’s an important one from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).]

Please tell BLM Director Bob Abbey to overturn the Bush administration’s anti-wilderness legacy!

One year ago it seemed

Spat

By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)

The bleakest town you’ve seen?

The Raven and I went out on a long daytrip yesterday, into the Owens Valley then east, towards Death Valley. We passed by the Famous U2 Joshua Tree — the site was infested with pilgrims as we went by — and dropped down into Panamint Springs past

Draft Chapter Two: Incensed

[Reading this at the writer’s group tonight. This won’t be here forever, but thought I’d share it. Devoted readers of my work may find a passage or two to be somewhat familiar. The first chapter draft — or intro, or whatever — is here.]

Removed so

Harper Lake

It came to me on the scent of creosote, cloying and resinous, and wet dust driven before a summer desert storm. A sudden gust out of the glowering east sent the little car skittering across the lane, and as I tightened my hands on the wheel the

The Deluge

A year ago The Raven and I watched the storm.

We had come up from the river, the day’s ferocious heat still seared into our skins. A hundred fifteen in Bullhead City, and we’d staggered against it, even the sidewalks beneath our feet shimmering

Bonneville

I was heading east about ten years ago, having slept little in a motel room in Wells, NV. The Pequop Mountains rolled past, and the Toana Range, and their pinyons and junipers made me long to sleep beneath them, a dangerous sentiment.

I stopped

A Lando

From southward comes the moon: bright yellow, desert-scented
From southward comes the moon: bright yellow, desert-scented
Hanging low above the plain brilliant, unornamented.

There are those who live their lives without examination
There are

A little bit of Earth Day green

Rainstorm clearing, evening, just west of … (continues)

Regarding the Mexican Wolf

Taking a break from educating the public at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

I’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

Late-Breaking Pleistocene Desert Woodrat News

A woodrat in Utah’s Great Basin is surrounded by toxic juniper leaves, which is much of its diet. Credit: Denise Dearing, University of Utah

As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer between 18,700 and 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what

Solar Colonialism

The introductory chapter of historian Gray Brechin’s must-read Imperial San Francisco is entitled The Urban Maelstrom. The chapter begins with a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s A Descent Into The Maelstrom, a tale of the now-eponymous sea storm with

Desert solar updates

Arduous day of job huntage here, but I wanted to share a couple things of a non-April Fool nature.

A couple weeks back climate activist Joseph Romm posted a screed on his blog Climate Progress against those shortsighted people who would blithely

About me

What is selfhood? I begin to realize, these days, that I cannot actually define myself. I begin to realize, these days, that I have so far done the opposite. I subtract everything from the universe that i know is not me, and declare the remainder

Help promote the Mother Road NM

Promoted from the comments on this post, a request from Jim Conkle

It seems there are some very passionate people on this group so I am going to ask each of you to put your thinking caps on and add your input to this project. How, other then all

Solar Rush

Via Larry Hogue, an article on the National Parks Conservation Association website:

The Mojave Desert is on fire. Private land worth $500 an acre five years ago is now selling for as much as 20 times that amount, with Fortune 500 companies