Nature Notes Archives

Below are the older editions of PEEC’s Nature Notes newsletter. For more recent editions, visit the Nature Notes page.

2020 Nature Notes

  • No. 4 pdf 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 pdf 920 KB
    • Celebrating 20 Years of Our Love of Nature
    • House Finch Nursery
    • Circumnavigating the Caldera
    • It’s Not Easy Being Small
  • No. 2 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 2400 KB
    • Totality: The Los Alamos Expeditions
    • Grief in the Garden
    • Tiger Salamanders and Mammals: Underground Companions?
    • Look What You Did!
  • No. 3 pdf 2400 KB
    • Summer Camp Snapshots
    • Special Eclipse Section
    • Nature Notes Fun Page
    • You Can Get Kids Outside
    • How Does Our Garden Grow?
  • No. 2 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 3000 KB
    • Bird Migrations
    • Coyote Howls
    • Ashley Pond is a Certified Wildlife Habitat
    • Juniper Berries on Kwage Mesa
    • The Banner Cloud
  • No. 2 pdf 1500 KB
    • It’s Time to Celebrate!
    • Site of Sights
    • Out and In the New Nature Center
  • No. 3 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 800 KB
    • Roadrunner Strategies
    • Monarch Watch
    • Two Spring Flowers
    • Tree Swings
  • Volume 12, No. 3 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 870 KB
    • Sparkling Rocks
    • Should I Add Earthworms to My Garden?
    • Hummingbird Photography
    • A Moth by Any Other Name
  • Volume 11, No. 4 pdf 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 pdf 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 pdf 300 KB
    • Earthquakes
    • Wealth of Native Plants
    • Science Fair 2011
    • Solar Clothes Drying
    • Family Nature Connection: Timing Is Everything
  • Volume 10, No. 3 pdf 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 pdf 860 KB
    • What a Difference a Little Rain Makes
    • Reports on Critter Class and Nature Odyssey
    • Weeds: Wonderful or Woeful?

2010 Nature Notes

2009 Nature Notes

  • Volume 8, No. 1 pdf 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 pdf 1000 KB
    • Endangered Species
    • Jemez Mountain Salamander
    • Roadrunner & Hawk
  • Volume 8, No. 3 pdf 800 KB
    • PEEC People
    • Pond Life
    • Family Nature Connection: Rain, Rain, Don’t Go Away
    • A Week in Nature Odyssey
  • Volume 8, No. 4 pdf 500 KB
    • Pikas, calliope hummingbird, and other wildlife sightings
    • Worms
    • Butterfly garden and herbarium

2008 Nature Notes

2007 Nature Notes

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