Sunday, September 23, 2018 from 1 – 4 pm at the Albuquerque Zoo* Join the Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative for this festive event which will feature lectures on living with Bears, and Bear behavior.   Children’s events and booths about wildlife from local organizations will be near the Polar Bear enclosure!    SCHEDULE OF EVENTS – […]

Hi!  I haven’t  written in a while.  Lots of stuff been going on,  although some of it health issues.  Spent a couple of months  in a depression, then been working my way out of it  over the last few months or so. But, but… but – everything is getting so much  better!  Work  (my day […]

Santa Fe on Saturday October 28 at 4:45pm at the CCA and in Albuquerque on October 29 at 1:00pm at the Guild. The movie and panel presentation is a Wildlands Network presentation!  Sponsored by New Mexico Wildways! Hosted and co-sponsored by Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, BirdsEye View GIS, Defenders of Wildlife, Ecotone Landscape Planning, New Mexico Wilderness […]

I took a class in casting prints of wildlife  from Mitch Johnson and  Peter Callen of Pathways.   The class was really good, and amid puns  of “come to the casting call” and “someday my prints will come” attendees learned a  lot  about getting good casts of wildlife prints! We were using 30-minute set (or so) […]

During my work today at the museum, I was logging Voles (red-backed, gray-sided red-backed, and Southern red-backed), Collared, Alpine,  and Turkestan Red Pika, and Least Weasels.  Also logged one Mexican Harvest Mouse, and a Stout.  The skin of the Stout is below.  Google has some good images of these animals in the wild.  I never […]

Got a chance  to get closer to the cats in the corner  of  the  mammal collection at the Southwestern Museum of Biology.  There  was one that I thought was a jaguar (Panthera onca) – native to the Americas.  It is a leopard (Panthera pardus) – a cat  native to Africa!  Below is a closer  image of the […]