The Black Range Naturalist

This natural history journal is provided free of charge for your personal use. Now in its nineth year the BRN is published periodically, generally on a quarterly basis. All issues of the BRN can be read on-line or downloaded as a .pdf document. The latest issue is often available as a flip-page document.

THE COVER TO THE LEFT IS A LINK TO A FLIP-PAGE FILE OF OUR LATEST ISSUE. Once open you can read the issue like a magazine on-line, download the issue as a .pdf, share the issue (via social media links, a URL, or a QR code), search within the issue, and copy or print a specific range of pages. The April 2026 issue includes the following material: Lac and Creosote - Northern Cardinal Nesting - A Few More Odonata, The 2024 Field Season - Odonata Updates - The Glow of a Tanager - New Exhibits at the Hillsboro Natural History Museum - Two Stamens, Menodora scabra - Orange Flying Beetles - Pleistocene Vertebrates - Egg Mass on Littleleaf Sumac and Datana perspicua - Then and Now, As Seen in Maps - Exuvium - Sora in Kingston - Spine-tipped Dancer Field Verification - Acrolophus kearfotti - Hunting and Gathering, Of Poults and Pineseeds - Identifying Mammals on Wildlife Cameras - Desert Stalked Puffball, Battarrea phalloides - Updates and Tidbits - Bats - Blister Beetles and Cantharidin - Humans and the Rest of Nature - Sex - Weather - Monarchs - White-lined Sphinx Moths -Social Learning in Birds - Evolutionary Processes - Fluorescent Pigmentation in Long-eared Owls - Dust Storms - Charles Wright and a Cuban Anole - Woodrats and Venom - Mines of the Black Range - Rio Grande Rift - Monsoon Rainfall in Hillsboro - Giant Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus species), Oviposition/ Reproduction/Foraging Notes - What People are Reading and Listening To - Rabb Park Trail Update - Cooperative National Geologic Map - Records of Vivid Dancer from the Black Range in Grant and Sierra Counties, New Mexico - Seepwillow, A Wasp Magnet - Aurora Borealis - Results of the 2025 Hillsboro Christmas Bird Count - Bird Cam Images of Sphinx Moth


Follow the Links Below to Download .pdf Copies
of past issues of the Black RangE Naturalist

October 2026
Scheduled

July 2026
Scheduled

April 2026
BRN Vol. 9 No. 2 .pdf

January 2026
BRN Vol. 9, No. 1 .pdf



October 2025
BRN Vol. 8, No. 4 .pdf

July 2025
BRN Vol. 8, No. 3 .pdf

April 2025
BRN Vol. 8, No. 2 .pdf

January 2025
BRN Vol. 8, No. 1 .pdf



October 2024
BRN Vol. 7, No. 4 .pdf

July 2024
BRN Vol. 7, No. 3 .pdf 

April 2024
BRN Vol. 7, No. 2 .pdf

January 2024
BRN Vol. 7, No. 1 .pdf



October 2023
BRN Vol. 6, No. 4 .pdf

July 2023
BRN Vol. 6, No. 3 .pdf

April 2023
BRN Vol. 6, No. 2 .pdf

January 2023
BRN Vol. 6, No. 1 .pdf



October 2022
BRN Vol. 5, No. 4 .pdf

July 2022
BRN Vol. 5, No. 3 .pdf

April 2022
BRN Vol. 5, No. 2 .pdf

January 2022
BRN Vol. 5, No. 1 .pdf



October 2021
BRN Vol. 4, No. 4 .pdf

July 2021
BRN Vol. 4, No. 3 .pdf

April 2021
BRN Vol. 4, No. 2 .pdf

January 2021
BRN Vol. 4, No. 1 .pdf



October 2020
BRN Vol. 3, No. 4 .pdf

July 2020
BRN Vol. 3, No 3 .pdf

April 2020
BRN Vol. 3, No. 2 .pdf

January 2020
BRN Vol. 3, No. 1 .pdf



October 2019
BRN Vol. 2, No. 4 .pdf

July 2019
BRN Vol. 2, No. 3 .pdf

April 2019
BRN Vol. 2, No. 2 .pdf

January 2019
BRN Vol. 2, No. 1 .pdf



October 2018
BRN Vol. 1, No. 2 .pdf

July 2018
BRN Vol. 1, No. 1 .pdf