Coyote Crossing

This is what happens when it rains in the desert
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 24 at 10:19:26 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6ve

Ya got yer desert trees, most of ‘em legumes, like this ironwood here.

There’s very little usable nitrogen in the soil in the desert. Plants need nitrogen for crucial metabolic processes, chief among them making amino acids and proteins. Without
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Up to the elbows
By Chris Clarke on 2011 05 10 at 12:50:16 am | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9Jd

My friend Susan posted a photo on Facebook this week of herself planting a tree in her Minnesota town, part of a campaign to plant a thousand of them. It’s a sweet photo. She squats at the base of the tree, one begloved hand on the ground as if to
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Sugar pine on Mt. San Jacinto
By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 25 at 10:41:06 pm | 8 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x75

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Haïti in context
By Chris Clarke on 2010 01 15 at 1:55:13 pm | 20 comments

This week we’ve seen Pat Robertson’s pronouncements that Haïti’s woes are the result of a “pact with the devil,” and smarmy, decontextualized smugness from farther left that amounts to basically the same point of view as Robertson’s. The fact is,
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Tree Deaths Double in West
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 22 at 3:04:00 pm | 2 comments

From the US Geological Survey:

Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S.
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