New website materials July 2007 through February 2008 "Our Lands & Their Creatures"/Lands: San Pedro River Valley: This section marked the most striking changes in our website coverage during this time, as an entirely new website -- http://www.sanpedrorivervalley.org -- was developed in cooperation with the Cascabel Working Group and other concerned parties, in order to oppose the Arizona Department of Transportation's proposal to build an Interstate Highway Bypass through the Middle San Pedro Watershed. See that link, and also the CWG's website, http://www.i10bypassinfo.us/. Front page: "What's New": "Community Garden" frontpage now divided into Circular Gardens -- these are kept updated as new plantings/weedings/harvestings occur, with images -- and Wildlands Gardens, featuring our mesquite processings and Daniel Baker's work, harvesting and processing various other wild plants. Casual sightings: A number of new entries since July: Owlflies, Cholla bird nests, Nursery Web Spiders, Ferruginous Hawk, unusual landscape views. Our latest image shows the full moon (destined for eclipse) rising over Sierra Blanca on February 20. Weather: New entry in "Quick References to Our Current Weather Conditions": "Current 7-day Forecast for Elna Otter's House in Cascabel!" People page: a number of new images in our Rogue's Gallery. "Our Lands & Their Creatures" Lands: Geology: improved the Geology Walk/Basin-Range page; Trip up Hot Springs Canyon has new images; Landscapes: new images in Galiuros page; History: Mary Taylor's historical essay inserted as a new page; the essay on "An Ancient Native American Trail in the Cascabel Basin" has been rewritten and updated with new map images and discussion about the probable route of this trail. Photostations: Area #51 identified!! An important new addition here, as David Omick and Daniel Baker completed the aim of identifying the 1965 USGS Photostation above the Big Bend in Hot Springs Canyon. See Hot Springs Canyon/Upper HSC USGS Photo Series, and HSC Photostations: Above the Yellow Cliffs: new stations identified upstream. Flora: Daniel Baker's SJ/CHA Plant list now on our main Flora page; Wildflowers: Cacti: Saguaros: new material in Saguaro Processing; Fungi et al: Fauna: Arthropods: New folder and image: Neuroptera; new entry: Nursery Web Spiders -- a number of images. Birds: new SJ bird list, adapted by Daniel Baker from USGS list, on main bird page; some fine new images of Canyon Towhees in "Sparrows, Towhees, Finches et al"; a number of new images in the Raptors page -- this page is about to be reorganized with distinct pages for our more-photographed raptors; Ravens page improved; Phainopepla page improved; Mammals: the Javelina page has been signiticantly expanded, now providing considerable deteail on these ubiquitous ramblers of our lands; rodents/now contains a new Gophers page with images and discussion about Pocket Gophers;
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