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