Ancient bison, roamed New Mexico for thousands of years, even up into the forests and far down into the Mexican frontier. The animals looked like the bison of today, but they were frighteningly large, about 20% larger than today’s bison
Tag: National Parks
Chaco Canyon and the Halls of Time
The Chaco great houses are huge, complex buildings with exquisite masonry. The more we learn about them, the less we seem to know about the people who built them.
Yellowstone by Winter
Winter in Yellowstone National Park reveals wildlife, geothermal features, rivers and quiet with few people while bison, trumpeter swans, river otter and wolves endure the cold. Winter is the time to see Yellowstone.
Failed National Park Proposal Could Have Displaced the Manhattan Project
How many people know that there was a big movement to create a new national park in the Los Alamos area before the Manhattan Project
Gratitude for National Parks
This is a guest editorial from my friend George Wuerthner originally published in Wildlife News. I print it to remind all of us why we asked to have the National …
Dark Holes Open to the Wonders of the Pueblo Past
Anyone who goes to the Los Alamos, New Mexico area now can’t help but feel the pace of life quickening as the Laboratory grows. Traffic jams build up in the …
Lightning Fire, Wild and Free
In mid-June lightning struck a remote slope in the Pecos Wilderness east of Santa Fe. The bolt started a fire that ignited dry fuels in a spruce-fir forest and quickly …
A Life of Caring about Bandelier National Monument
I found myself clearing out old files from my activist work in the 1980s about Bandelier National Monument. It struck me how I have been focused on this area and …
Planning the Valles Caldera National Preserve
The Valles Caldera in northern New Mexico is a vast collapsed volcano now coated with forests and grasslands. People have been coming to the Caldera seasonally for centuries, making paths …
Today, Visiting National Parks Endangers Visitors
Summer is here. Americas are hitting the road for the national parks by the tens of thousands. People from all over the country are tired of coronavirus lockdown and they …
