Wild Things: Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)
Wild Things: The male of this beautiful songbird, the summer tanager, has a completely red body and tail and black eyes.
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Wild Things: Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii)
This quail is a desert inhabitant, favoring bare soils with scattered shrubs, small trees, and...
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Wild Things: Swainson’s hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
The Swainson’s hawk is similar in size to the Red-tailed hawk, a bit shorter in length at...
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Wild Things: Northern Shoveler duck (Spatula clypeata)
The Northern Shoveler duck gets its common, and scientific, names from the unusual size and shape...
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Reflecting on changes at CYFD in a year
This time last year, without primary campaign ads blasting faux scandals across our televisions,...
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Welcome to Fool’s Spring in the East Mountains
A few days ago, I was watching the weather report on the evening news as usual. It made me chuckle...
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Legal cannabis: First week sales
With adult-use cannabis sales near $10 million in the first week of being legalized, area...
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Why crime bills are so hard to pass here
If ever there was a year for get-tough-on-crime legislation in New Mexico, you’d think it would be...
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Wild Things: Bullock’s Oriole (Icterus bullockii)
This brightly colored songbird is a member of the blackbird family Icteridae. Males display...
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Redistricting 2021: What’s next?
We have a special session of the Legislature coming up that holds huge stakes for New Mexico...
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On the stunning gorgeousness of fall in New Mexico
On Sept. 22nd at 1:21 was the Autumnal Equinox, with 12 hours of dark and 12 of light. Time to...
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What nice things for New Mexico could look like
Last week’s column, wherein I pointed out that venality, greed, and self-absorption on the part of...
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History talk details 1909 balloon distance flight across the Manzanos
On Sept. 19, licensed balloon pilot and ballooning author Dick Brown will deliver the East...
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Draw your own redistricting map and submit it
As the process of redistricting continues, the public is being asked to weigh in—or submit a map...
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Why can’t New Mexicans have nice things? I’ll tell you.
I’m writing this week’s column in an airport lounge on my return from a business trip. I’ve spent...
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Census: Population decline in rural areas continues
The release of 2020 Census data has shown that, overall, the population of the United States has...
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Ringtail, ‘squirrel of the night,’ visits Natural History Center
A ringtail made a temporary home in the rafters of the Sandia Mountain Natural History Center in...
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Wild Things: Hairy woodpecker (Dryobates villosus)
Hairy woodpeckers have interspersed black and white feathers, with black and white striping on the...
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Severe weather season in the East Mountains and Estancia Valley
Anyone who has lived in the East Mountain area more than a year knows it can get severe...
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Wild Things: Western Wood Pewee (Contopus sordidulus)
Western wood pewees are mostly gray or brownish gray, with a crown of feathers that can be...
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