mjhinton posted a photo:
near Black Canyon, outside of Santa Fe, NM. See the blog post: bit.ly/ZCAmEh
yellow-rumped warbler (Audubon’s race)
mjhinton posted a photo:
near Black Canyon, outside of Santa Fe, NM. See the blog post: bit.ly/ZCAmEh
Black Canyon Campground near Santa Fe, NM
We camped near Santa Fe in a great little campground near the bottom of the ski basin road. Black Canyon CG has paved sites with great separation, clean outhouses, no hook-ups. It’s barely an hour from Albuquerque and near 8500 feet. There is a good trail out out of the campground and another to Hyde Park CG. There were lots of birds, lots of hummingbirds, even one magnificent hummingbird (twice the size of more common hummingbirds). See 20 photos.
Black Canyon Park Service webpage
CG details, site map, and reservations
Black Canyon Campground near Santa Fe, NM is a post from Ah, Wilderness! . Let me know what you think. peace, mjh
But it’s a dry heat … a hellishly dry heat
Check out these headlines from today’s Albuquerque Journal, scattered among the day’s trivialities and ads:
- 0.91 inches of rain in 8 months | ABQ Journal By John Fleck
- Drought watch: no improvement in New Mexico
- Pecos fire rips through 500 acres
- Fire danger closes Sandia Mountains
- Magdalena R.D. fire restrictions to begin
- Starving cattle find new home
and, paradoxically,
- Snowstorm closes I-70 west of Denver (444 miles north of Abq)
And we end with gallows humor:
» Drought watch: quotes of the month | ABQ Journal
“I’m worried that the dirt’s gonna catch fire.”
– Adrian Oglesby, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board member
update: No sooner posted than we have a second contender:
“It’s forgotten how to rain down here.” Phil King, New Mexico State University/Elephant Butte Irrigation District hydrologist
Uh-oh: Rogue modified wheat found in Oregon #wtf
Can’t stop progress. Or greed. Or mad scientists. We’re doomed.
» Rogue modified wheat found in Oregon | ABQ Journal
Field workers at an Eastern Oregon wheat farm were clearing acres for the bare off-season when they came across a patch of wheat that didn’t belong.
The workers sprayed it and sprayed it, but the wheat wouldn’t die. Their confused boss grabbed a few stalks and sent it to a university lab in early May.
A few weeks later, Oregon State wheat scientists made a startling discovery: The wheat was genetically modified, in clear violation of U.S. law, although there’s no evidence that modified wheat entered the marketplace.
They contacted federal authorities, who ran more tests and confirmed their discovery.
“It looked like regular wheat ,” said Bob Zemetra, Oregon State’s wheat breeder.
No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming
