There’s always something happening outdoors on the Pajarito Plateau!
Increases in artificial lighting and light pollution cost us our connection to the past and produce devastating effects on our own health and our environment.
Light Pollution, the Environment, and Us Read More »
In spring, Monarchs from Mexico are working their way north and east into their milkweed breadbasket.
Spring Butterflies: Last Rite Read More »
We don’t know the stars as well as our ancestors did.
Restoring Our Night Skies Read More »
The Knife Edge is a narrow ridge of rock separating two branches of the Ancho Canyon drainage.
In PEEC’s last blog post on coyotes, I discussed the ways we’re inadvertently attracting these opportunistic omnivores through supplemental feeding.
On Coyote Encounters Read More »
One of the finger mesas extending east from the Pajarito Plateau, Deer Trap Mesa offers the most consistently scenic hikes on the plateau.
Deer Trap Mesa Trail Read More »
Brown Elfin is of a group of Hairstreaks (Callophrys spp.) that we see in spring; many are Elfins.
Butterfly Rites of Spring III: Flower Munchers Read More »
After overwintering as pupae, several species of whites and orangetips eclose in early spring and immediately set about searching for mates on desert hilltops.
Butterfly Rites of Spring II: Desert Hilltoppers Read More »
