Over 800 feet below the earth visitors can tour the Papoose Room of the Kings Palace, Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. It’s the major thought-provoking formation in the Papoose Room, located between the King’s Palace and Queen’s Chamber. The broom is in the far right of the photo. It takes imagination, but you can…
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A Moment with a Mexican Ground Squirrel
In my field time at Comanche Springs, I’ve seen this little guy during the spring and summer months running about this section. He’s always afraid of the Gator and has only been captured on the nearby camera trap twice. All that changed on an overcast almost rainy day last month. He ran west from the…
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Earlier this year I began a camera trap survey at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus (CSAC) west of Crowell, Texas. The survey’s purpose is to acquire base-line data on what faunal life is present and utilizing the 700-acre campus. Wildlife surveying is important for a many reasons and for this project I’m concentrating on four…
Read MoreA Chance Encounter with Aoudad Sheep Lambs
There is always a first for everything and I recently got to see Aoudad sheep (Ammotragus lervia) lambs for the first time. Thanks to my friend, Emily, who had already taken photos of these babes, I was on the look out for them as Sharla and I was driving into Carlsbad Caverns National Park in…
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Forgotten Winds 