Author: Blackcoy

For thousands and thousands of years, if not more, more than 30k Sandhill Cranes have been wintering in the desert land of the Chiricahuas. But it wasn’t always desert here, long ago during the last Ice Age the southeastern part of Arizona, including northern Mexico were fertile marshland. It is here that bones of large…

Have you ever met an Ironwood tree? They only exist in Arizona, in an area that President Bill Clinton On June 9, 2000, established Ironwood Preserve as a national monument to protect these endemic trees and to the thousands of artifacts, and over 200 Hohokam archaeological sites that remain here. It protects 129,000 acres (almost…

I wrote a poem as I walked along: The Quiet is lacking, hungry fora fiber of substance to be heard,The Trees are longing, yearning fora bird or two to tell stories with,The seed is breaking, shelteredprotected, on a mission to life,Listen human, as you stomp through,open cracks of your toes,Feel, the hard, the soft, the…

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“Unusual Suspects: Allies In The Park Are Closer Than They Appear” https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2917/ download from EarthArXiv DOI https://doi.org/10.31223/X5763S Summary One season, 1039 hours, as a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde National Park. Interps we are called, observing, telling stories, being stewards of the past, present and future of wildness. Wildness in the animal world is reserved…

Field Report No. 2 – Tabor Tree Project – November 2021 https://mailchi.mp/af277f6eabe8/field-report-no-2-tabor-tree-project-november-2021

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We are very excited to be planting this new tree adding to the diversity at Mt. Tabor, stay tuned for more photos when we start the new training October 28. 2021. https://americanheritagetrees.org/product/sycamore-moon-seedling/

Beginning in the Fall of 2020, we began the Citizen Science Project called the “Tabor Tree Project” in Portland, Oregon. An old growth forest nestled upon a dormant volcano in the SE of the city, this group of Citizen Scientists identified a diversity of species and ages of trees. Dr. Gossen wiill return with the…