What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate and remote. -Ed Abbey. This is a fairly large lizard – up to 24 inches long including its tail. It is a pale gray or whitish with a tan or brownish reticulated pattern on the back and sides. It has a row of […]
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At time the Carrancha is noisy, but is not generally so: its cry is loud, very harsh and peculiar, and may be liken to the sound of the Spanish guttural g, followed by a rough double r, when uttering this cry it elevates its head higher and higher, till at last, with its beak wide
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Snowy Owl and Raven were both pure white. They decide to make each other more colorful, and Raven paints gray crescents on Owl’s white feathers. But Raven will not sit still while Owl paints him, and in frustration, Snowy Owl pours lamp oil onto Raven, turning his feathers black as night. Transformed, the Raven cries,
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Bull trout are a char of the Salmonidae family (salmon and trout) that are native to the Pacific Northwest. They inhabit cold clear waters of the mountains and coastal rivers in the Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (not coastal here!). The species used to occur in northern California but is no longer found
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It’s better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise. Mark Twain This is a large genus of New World scarab beetles – so taxonomically they are not bugs – which are within the Insect Order Hemiptera, or true bugs. The Phyllophaga are commonly known as May beetles, June bugs, or June beetles. They
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