Publications

The Black Range provides a number of digital publications which are free of charge for your personal use. Please follow the links provided below to download these .pdfs.

These publications are hosted on The Black Range Naturalist (www.blackrangenaturalist.org).

• The Black Range Naturalist

• Odonata (The Natural History of the Odonata of Doña Ana County With Notes on the Black Range)

• Early Naturalists of the Black Range

• Walks In the Blaack Range
  (4 Volumes)

• Plants+ of the Black Range (3 Volumes)

• Butterflies and Moths of the Black Range and Dońa Ana County

• Reptiles of the Black Range

• Video about Mountain Lion Research: Dogs and Lions with Harley Shaw

• Video about Natural History Research: Trailing With Toasty

• The Silver Fire - The experiences of Kingston and Hillsboro during the 2013 fire.

• The Spell of the Black Range - The Fulghum family history from the Black Range in the 1880’s

• Ninety Miles From Nowhere - Anabell Howell’s Experiences Homesteading in Southwestern New Mexico in the 1930’s

• Diary of the Hunt

The most recent issue of The Black Range Naturalist (April 2026) Includes the following:

• 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 54. 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

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