Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus Research

  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…

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Looking Into the Eyes of a Porcupine

Hiking the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge always reveals something new. On a cool, cloudy, and almost completely overcast day, we happened upon a grove of hackberry trees. After following Barry through the tall grass we came up under the trees. For some reason something made me look up to my right into the tree and…

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A 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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The Voice of a Meadowlark

You’re stopped on the High Plains of Texas, get out of your car and then you hear a call that sounds like a low throaty explosive chuck. Then the sound turns into a rich flute-like jumble of gurgling notes descending the music scale. If you are stopped anywhere in the High Plains of Texas along…

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