These are the older editions of PEEC’s Nature Notes newsletter. For more recent editions, visit the Nature Notes page.
2023 Nature Notes
- No. 4
4 MB
- Aspen Elementary School Habitat
- Frenzy in the Fall
- Second CHW Sign in Los Alamos
- Book Review: The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
- Fantasia and the Boil of Bounding Winds
- Spread the Joy of Nature
- View our programs calendar for October – December here!
4 MB - No. 3 6 MB
- Climate Change and Fire Ecology
- How to Help the Blue Crow
- Look and Learn at PEEC’s Gardens
- The Mourning Cloak, Metamorphosis, and The Magic of Nature
- Bear Fest 2023
- Legacy of a Lifetime
- View our programs calendar for July – September here!
- No. 2 4 MB
- Preserving Dark Skies for Los Alamos
- Book Review: Conversations with Birds
- “Water Water Everywhere…”
- How Mountain Lions Feed the Forest
- Cute Chipmunks Cheer Me Up!
- Earth Day Festival 2023
- View our programs calendar for April – June here!
- No. 1 3 MB
- 123rd Annual Christmas Bird Count
- Building Beautiful Wildlife Habitats in Los Alamos
- Apex Predator!
- The Hushed Colors of Autumn
- View our programs calendar for January – March here!
2022 Nature Notes
- No. 4 3 MB
- The Monarch Butterfly Is Endangered, But Not Federally Listed
- The Big Chill
- Book Review: Colors of Nature
- James Webb Space Telescope
- No. 3 2.8 MB
- The Las Conchas Fire in the Jemez
- Wildland Mitigation Measures
- Finding My Way
- Climate Change: Up Close and Personal
- Recent Acquisitions at the Nature Center
- View our programs calendar for July – September here!
- No. 2 1.1 MB
- Farewell, My Friends
- The Rustle of Spring
- No More Peat?
- Book Review: Planet
- New Passport Arrives
- Earth Day 2022
- Let’s Journal
- View our programs calendar for April – June here!
- No. 1 1100 KB
- Thank You for Giving the Gift of Nature
- The Elegant Elk
- Introducing PEEC’s Land Acknowledgment
- Winter Sports Feature: Cross Country Skiing
- Discovering the Meaning of Nature
- Los Alamos Citizen Task Force Working on Climate Change
- View our programs calendar for January – March here!
2021 Nature Notes
- No. 4 790 KB
- Celebrating Our Community This Fall
- The Best Day at the Nature Center
- Finding a Place to Perch
- Observing Animal Patterns on the Pajarito Plateau
- Book Review: Ring of Bright Water
- What Do Butterflies Do in the Cold?
- View our programs calendar for October – December here!
- No. 3 1100 KB
- Making Connections Through a Kids’ Animal Guide
- The True Heart of PEEC
- Three Ways to Protect Our Black Bear Neighbors
- Discover-ability: Accessibility & Nature
- What’s In a Name?
- No Bummer: Summer with Hummers!
- No. 2 1200 KB
- Taking Healthy Risks
- Get Ready to Start Composting!
- Naturalist Kits Keep Northern New Mexico Families in Tune with Nature
- The Great Awakening
- Get to Know the Canyon Tree Frogs
- No. 1 2000 KB
- Thank You for Being a Nature Fan!
- Down the Rabbit Hole!
- TayTay the Tarantula
- Introducing the Young Adult Advisory Group
- Twenty Views to Enjoy in 2021
2020 Nature Notes
- No. 4 870 KB
- Building an Outdoors for All
- Keeping Our Skies Dark
- Spider to the Rescue!
- The Story behind the Dorothy Hoard Gardens
- New Mexico Naturalist: Joaquin Gallegos
- Homeschool and School at Home: Relationships over Results
- No. 3 920 KB
- Celebrating 20 Years of Our Love of Nature
- House Finch Nursery
- Circumnavigating the Caldera
- It’s Not Easy Being Small
- No. 2 924 KB
- Working Toward Being a More Earth-Friendly Organization
- Blind Ad a Bat
- A Murder in the Mountains
- Let’s Certify 200 Backyard Wildlife Habitats
- Critter Corner
- No. 1 2000 KB
- You Helped Get More Kids Outside!
- Bobcat at the Door
- Critter Corner
- How to Get Your Kids to Love Winter
- Looking Back on 20 Years, and to 20 More!
- Larry Deaven Recognized for Volunteer Work
2019 Nature Notes
- No. 4 850 KB
- 20 Years of Celebrating Our Nature!
- Give Me a Home, Where Coelophysis Roams
- Four Reasons to Go Fall Camping
- Explore Bandelier’s Backcountry Trails
- 20 Ways to Celebrate 2020
- Los Alamos’s Certified Wildlife Habitat Certification is Renewed!
- No. 3 876 KB
- 2020 Is Coming!
- Summer Adventures in Southern Utah: Road Trips from the Pajarito Plateau
- Silent Stalker: Our Great Horned Owl
- Summer Backpacking in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado
- Getting Your Gophers
- No. 2 1100 KB
- Introducing the Northern NM Peak Challenge
- New Opportunities to Explore Our Trails
- The Eternal Coyote
- Building Your Child’s Confidence with Outdoor Skills
- How You Can Help Monarch Butterflies
- Recognizing Patterns By Exploring Animal Skulls
- No. 1 1500 KB
- Get Ready for Passport III
- Raccoon Raid
- Reduce Your Waste-line
- The PEEC “Sisters”
- Thanks for Your Feedback: From Dirt Lovers, Groupies, and Proud Members
- Hello From PEEC’s New Board President
2018 Nature Notes
- No. 4 1800 KB
- We Want to Celebrate You!
- How Does PEEC Enrich Your Life?
- Fifty State Birds, Fifty Photographs
- What Did You Accomplish with PEEC this Summer?
- Our Yard is Now a Wildlife Habitat!
- Acorn Woodpecker Antics
- No. 3 1400 KB
- More Kids in Nature, Thanks to You
- PEEC Pathfinders and Trailblazers Set a Course for August
- From Camper to Counselor: Growing up with PEEC
- Desperation and the Mule Deer
- Nature Education: From Shakespeare to 1948 and 2018
- Bear Festival and Dinner to Focus on Education and Bear Safety
- No. 2 3800 KB
- It Will Knock Your Socks Off
- Shaping the Future of Our Mountains
- Amping Up Partnerships for our Trails
- On Unsteady Wings
- What’s New in the Penstemon Gardens?
- New PEEC Member Perk
- No. 1 2100 KB
- Building Bridges Between Communities
- Let’s Talk Sustainability
- The Lion in Winter
- Finding Colliding Stars, Propagating Waves, and the Source of Gold
- The PEEC Penstemon Gardens
2017 Nature Notes
- No. 4 2400 KB
- Totality: The Los Alamos Expeditions
- Grief in the Garden
- Tiger Salamanders and Mammals: Underground Companions?
- Look What You Did!
- No. 3 2400 KB
- Summer Camp Snapshots
- Special Eclipse Section
- Nature Notes Fun Page
- You Can Get Kids Outside
- How Does Our Garden Grow?
- No. 2 3200 KB
- What Motivates Us?
- Living with Bears: PEEC’s Bear Festival
- Fox News Flash
- PEEC Birders Make the News
- Nature Notes Fun Page
- PEEC Critters Adoption Program
- Volcano Adventures
- No. 1 2100 KB
- We Are Here, Together
- A Changing Climate
- Getting Started with Wildlife Photography
- Nature Notes Fun Page
- Abert’s Audacious Squirrel
2016 Nature Notes
- No. 4 1200 KB
- October Is for You
- What Is a Penstemon?
- The Two-Week Super Challenge
- Nature Notes Fun Page
- This Land Is My Land
- When Exotic Is Beautiful
- No. 3 1200 KB
- The Future Elf Queen
- A Snake Called Sam
- Cultivating a Love for Nature
- Kids’ Corner
- Water Quality: Our Aquatic Resources
- 24th Los Alamos Butterfly Count
- Invaluable Volunteers
- No. 2 1300 KB
- Community Wildlife Habitat Celebration
- I Found an Animal out of Place! Now What?
- Kids’ Corner
- Tiny Mammals, Huge Impacts
- LEED Gold Certification
- No. 1 1300 KB
- Uniting Kids with Nature
- Sixth Graders Reach for the Stars
- What Bloomed in October 2015?
- The Results Are In!
- A Speaker’s Perspective
- The Future of Our Forests
- Your Support Made a Difference!
2015 Nature Notes
- No. 1 3000 KB
- Bird Migrations
- Coyote Howls
- Ashley Pond is a Certified Wildlife Habitat
- Juniper Berries on Kwage Mesa
- The Banner Cloud
- No. 2 1500 KB
- It’s Time to Celebrate!
- Site of Sights
- Out and In the New Nature Center
- No. 3 1600 KB
- Kinnikinnik Park: Hot Spot for Discovery
- Raven Haven
- Tarantulas on the Move!
- The Tribulations of Fish, Part I
- The Observation Room
- No. 4 3100 KB
- Member PEECnic, October 18
- What’s That “Ratchet” Animal?
- You Brought A Mom to Tears
- The Tribulations of Fish, Part II
- Maternity Ward at PEEC?
- White Raven Landing Sequence
- PEEC Interest Group in Action
2014 Nature Notes
- No. 1 1700 KB
- Deer in Our Yards
- How Icicles are Formed
- Jemez Mountains Salamander Listed
- Bees and Caffeine
- Mountain School Green Team News
- The Best 10 Minutes I Spent this Month (or, How I Certified my Yard as a Wildlife Habitat)
- No. 2 1800 KB
- Northern Shoveler
- Articles by and about Dorothy Hoard
- Moonset
- Crane Migration
- Science Fair
- Wildflowers
- A Peek Inside the Exhibit Design Process
- No. 3 500 KB
- Nature Center Groundbreaking
- Little Yellow Composites: Greenthread
- Watching Us, What Do Critters See?
- Bears – An Inside Story
- How to Get an ID on Your Plant
- What is Citizen Science?
- No. 4 3000 KB
- Interpretation… What Does That Mean?
- Rains Bring out New Species
- Cold Birds
- Critters of a Different Color
- Bighorn Sheep Are a Big Surprise
- Craig Martin in a Box
2013 Nature Notes
- Volume 12, No. 1 800 KB
- The Call of the Mild, the Call of the Wild
- Climbing Trees
- Our Pinon-Juniper Community
- A weird bug, a new interest group, a poem, and more
- Volume 12, No. 2 800 KB
- Roadrunner Strategies
- Monarch Watch
- Two Spring Flowers
- Tree Swings
- Volume 12, No. 3 700 KB
- Butterfly Watchers
- A “Strange” Plant
- Years of Watching Plants and Climate
- Collective Nouns: Fun with Language
- Green Hour Hikes
- Volume 12, No. 4 1800 KB
- What Is the Pajarito Plateau?
- Bird Migrations and Park Flight
- Mistletoe: Not Always a Problem!
- Some Surprises on PEEC’s Annual List of Wildflowers
2012 Nature Notes
- Volume 11, No. 1 1200 KB
- Meteor Shower schedule for 2012
- The Stars of Orion
- A Tale of Two Turtles
- Macroinvertebrates in Lakes and Streams
- Volume 11, No. 2 760 KB
- Mountain Lion Body Has a Life Tale
- Squirrels, Vacuum Cleaners, and Ecology
- Fire, People, and the Environment
- PEEC Birders for Bears
- Volume 11, No. 3 870 KB
- Sparkling Rocks
- Should I Add Earthworms to My Garden?
- Hummingbird Photography
- A Moth by Any Other Name
- Volume 11, No. 4 1200 KB
- Family Nature Connection: Secrets of Leaves
- Night Watch on Gray Foxes
- Ashley Pond 30% Design Review
- PEEC Finds Monterey Is for the Birds
2011 Nature Notes
- Volume 10, No. 1 660 KB
- Eagles, People, or Both?
- Bobcat at the Bird Feeder
- Migratory Birds
- Family Nature Connection: Hibernation
- Crystal Stucture of Snowflakes
- Volume 10, No. 2 300 KB
- Earthquakes
- Wealth of Native Plants
- Science Fair 2011
- Solar Clothes Drying
- Family Nature Connection: Timing Is Everything
- Volume 10, No. 3 1100 KB
- Hope from Hopelessness (fire recovery)
- The Drought: Why and What
- What Was That Noise? (wildlife camera)
- Confessions of a Wannabe Birder
- Volume 10, No. 4 860 KB
- What a Difference a Little Rain Makes
- Reports on Critter Class and Nature Odyssey
- Weeds: Wonderful or Woeful?
2010 Nature Notes
- Volume 9, No. 1 600 KB
- Winter Skies
- Importance of Long-term Data Collection
- Critter and Bird Lists
- Family Nature Connection: Heat Loss from Your House
- Volume 9, No. 2 600 KB
- Science Fair 2010
- Earth Day 2010
- Family Nature Connection: Butterflies
- Northern Goshawk
- Volume 9, No. 3 500 KB
- Preschoolers Love PEEC
- Bark Scorpion
- Gardening articles galore
- Invasive Thistles
- Volume 9, No. 4 570 KB
- The Gopher Getter
- Mammals of Los Alamos County
- Family Nature Connection: Potato Topo
2009 Nature Notes
- Volume 8, No. 1 1000 KB
- A New Forest in Los Alamos
- Townsend’s Solitaire Adopts White Rock Family
- Rare Sungrebe Spotted in New Mexico
- Rascals of the Trees
- From Duckweed to Blue Lettuce: PEEC’s Herbarium
- Volume 8, No. 2 1000 KB
- Endangered Species
- Jemez Mountain Salamander
- Roadrunner & Hawk
- Volume 8, No. 3 800 KB
- PEEC People
- Pond Life
- Family Nature Connection: Rain, Rain, Don’t Go Away
- A Week in Nature Odyssey
- Volume 8, No. 4 500 KB
- Pikas, calliope hummingbird, and other wildlife sightings
- Worms
- Butterfly garden and herbarium
2008 Nature Notes
- Volume 7, No. 1 756 KB
- Hibernation
- Worm Garden
- Winter Bird List
- Volume 7, No. 2 917 KB
- Family Science Connection: Darling Dandelions
- Woodhouse’s Toads
- PEEC Receives Lowe’s Foundation Grant
- Plastic Bags
- Volume 7, No. 3 996 KB
- Wild flowers
- Birds in June
- Geocaching
- Prickly Pear Cactus
- Ringtail Cat
- Volume 7, No. 4 988 KB
- Mystery of the Wasp Nest
- Living with Nature’s Complications (Rattlesnakes)
- Kids Garden Class Recap
- Nature Deficit Disorder
- Family Nature Science: Making Tracks
2007 Nature Notes
- Volume 6, No. 1 373 KB
- Feeding Local Birds
- Who Ate the Goodies
- Making the Energy City Energy Independent
- Nature in the News
- Volume 6, No. 2 763 KB
- Spring in the Garden and the House
- A Whiptail Lizard Has Come to PEEC
- Kids Get Involved with Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots Program
- Volume 6, No. 3 907 KB
- Backyard Wildlife Habitats
- Vernal Pools Ephemeral Oasis
- Volume 6, No. 4 830 KB
- Birdstrikes on Windows
- Fungi
- Birds of PEEC