What's New on The Black Range Naturalist Website

Most of our material is posted on The Black Range Naturalist website (www.blackrangenaturalist.org). This is a listing of what is new on that site.

April

General

• The Black Range Naturalist website has been established and an interface developed between the Black Range website and The Black Range Naturalist website. Still under construction, expect broken links for quite some time.

March

Walks

• Walks in the Black Range - Draft of the 3rd Edition - Published for review. Comments and proposed additions received by June 1, 2026 will be consider for inclusion in the final. Comments and proposed additions received after that date will be considered for later issuance.

• West of Wicks - Video of the Percha Narrows from the Percha-Wicks confluence west to the middle part of the Percha Box.

Auto Tours

• Upper Berenda Creek & Pierce Road Auto Tour video added to the Follow The Contours page

Videos

• Rock Stars of the Black Range - Volume 1 (Sublime Rock Formations) added to the Follow the Contours video portfolio

February

Walks

• Percha Creek Box Videos - Added to Follow The Contours Page

• Aerial Video of Percha Box Side Canyons - Added to Follow The Contours Page

Birds

• Mountain Pygmy Owl - New Photos and Video

January

Website

• Follow The Contours - Page Added

Walks and Drives

• Percha Creek Box Videos - Added to Vimeo

• Cave Creek South - Video of ride out of Cave Creek

Birds

• Mountain Pygmy Owl - New Photos

December

Insects

• Vivid Dancer, Argia vivida - Addendum to Odonata posted

• Aztec Dancer, Argia nahuana - Addendum to Odonata posted

Birds

• Harris’s Sparrow - Zonotrichia querula- New Photos

• Olive Warbler - Setophaga graciae - New Photos

History

• Ft. Cummings, Cooke’s Spring etc. - New Video

Nearby

• San Lorenzo Canyon, Socorro County - New Video

General

• Black Range Naturalist January 2026 posted.

November

Insects

• Schistocerca albolineata - White-lined Bird Grasshopper - Photographs

Other

• Lake Valley Mining District - Video and in Portfolio

• Fluorite Ridge Mining District - Video and in Portfolio

• Lake Valley page updated

• Fluorite Ridge page updated

October

Other

• Lentius arcularius, Spring Polypore - Photographs

• Moonstone from Rabb Park - Photographs

• Battarrea phalloides, Desert Stalked Puffball - Photographs

• Coprinoid mushroom - Photograph

• Natural History Blog - added

Insects

• Addendum 1: Confirmation of the Southwestern ‘Yellow Form’ and the Typical ‘Green Form’ of the Eastern Ringtail . . . in Doña Ana County published

• Oslar’s Oakworm Moth Caterpillar - Photographs. Video

• Scollid Wasps - Photos

• Stictiella pulchella (Butterfly-wolf Wasp) - Photos

Birds

• Western Screech Owl - Video

September

Insects

• Damselflies - Volume 2, 2nd Edition of Odonata of Doña Ana County and the Black Range

• Strymon melons, Gray Hairstreak: Photographs and Video

• Danaus glippus, Queen - Photographs and Video

• Chauliognathus omissus or scutellaris: Photographs
  

Plants

• Maurandya antirrhiniflora, Little Snapdragon: Photographs

• Erythrostemon gilliesii, Bird of Paradise Bush: Photographs
  

• Asclepias oenotheroides, Zizotes Milkweed: Photographs
  

• Potentilla crinita, Bearded Cinquefoil: Photographs

• Penstemon virgatus: Photographs

Other

• Music from Billie-Bob Bacon-Grease

• Black Range Naturalist, October 2025

• Battarrea phalloides, Desert Stalked Puffball: Photographs

• Morchella prava, verified to species

• Walks In The Black Range, crosswalk trail updates published in the BRN with this page

• Added this page

• Added a new blog - “Natural History Blog” - with a catchy title