Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s flower is the fairy slipper orchid, Calypso bulbosa. This is perhaps the most beautiful, breathtaking flower we
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Nature News
There’s always something happening outdoors on the Pajarito Plateau!
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s wildflower is known and loved by many—Indian paintbrush (Castilleja integra). It is found most often among Piñons and
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Acorn Woodpeckers at the Nature Center
This week as Marion Stelts was spending time at the nature center, he observed some interesting bird behavior – acorn
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Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s flower is growing in many places both in White Rock and the Townsite often in large numbers—very impressive
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Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
Our wildflower of the week is our lovely lavender penstemon, Penstemon secundiflorus. Its scientific name uses the word secund, which means
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Salamander in Garden Pond
A local resident in the Camino Encantado neighborhood of Barranca Mesa recently had a surprise when she was cleaning out
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Articles by Local Authors
Articles about local nature topics, from community publications and the archives of our pre-2015 website. 2017 Two Streams of the
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Mountain lion at the pond again
Check it out – another mountain lion spotting on Barranca Mesa. This amazing photo was taken by a critter cam
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Valles Caldera Rim Trail
By Dorothy Hoard, January 2014 The Valles Caldera is a volcano in the Jemez Mountains of north-central New Mexico. The
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