Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

New Mexico

  • Tsankawi Shelter

    Part of Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, the Tsankawi Historic Sites surround and top this mesa:Several caves, which 800 years ago were back rooms for the ancestral Pueblo people who lived here, dot the mesa flanks:Inside this one was this extraordinary petroglyph:And this bird nest:Still sheltering, after all these years.

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  • New Mexico

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  • New Mexico

    A trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, last week was not, needless to say, without a bit of nature. I explored the Randall Davey Audubon Center, and the Nature Conservancy’s Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, adjacent properties both an hour-long walk from the Plaza, the center of town. A mule deer — check out those big…

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