Publications

The Black Range provides a number of digital publications which are free of charge for your personal use. Please follow the links provided to download these .pdfs - they are generally offered in both a compressed and uncompressed format. These publications are hosted on The Black Range Naturalist website (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