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The Guadalupe Mountains are seductive for their wooded canyons and high forests. But they're as notable for what's hidden beneath and within them as they…

Tall 'Spanish daggers' stand in the Big Bend desert, their limbs extended in expressive gestures. Another variety - the Great Plains or "soapweed' species…

In December 2019, a Chihuahuan Desert place became the country's newest national park, White Sands, in New Mexico, preserves a vast, shining dunefield.…

Few people of the many hundred thousand living on or crossing the Llano Estacado (the Staked Plains of west Texas) realize that the Llano is a gigantic mesa.

A natural gardener participates in a world that is much greater than the constructs of humans. Such a gardener connects with the natural world in a myriad of life-affirming ways.

Prairie dogs are an iconic figure in of most of the region where Nature Notes is broadcast. Prairie dogs keep grasslands diverse by their constant disturbing of the soil.

Your lips are chapped. Your hair unruly. Doorknobs greet you with an electric shock. The dry season has arrived in the Chihuahuan Desert region. While the aridity at times seems a hardship for us, it poses a true survival test for wildlife. How do desert animals get enough water to live?

Ever received an orchid for a special occasion? Or maybe you’ve walked through a hot, steamy, greenhouse, delighting in the color and shapes of the orchids on display. Without a doubt, orchids are special.

With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert bird unique?

Aldo Leopold's legendary essay collection, A Sand County Almanac, has inspired countless conservationists and earned Aldo Leopold a place alongside Henry David Thoreau in history. Who was Leopold? And how did he revolutionize our thinking about the natural world?