After a very long gap in posts to this blog, some readers have wondered what happened? Did Neil finally fall off a cliff while chasing...

It was wicked-hot, dry, desolate, and extraordinarily beautiful in the desert near the Owyhee River in Malheur County, where I spent a...

Last summer, I wrote about a visit I made to the pumice desert east of Crater Lake, to check up on our population of Leona's Little Blue,...