New southwestern nature blogs are popping up like spadefoot toads after a desert rain. Chas has asked me to mention Jonathan Hanson's iconoclastic Alpha Environmentalist, but I am going to take the opportunity to introduce my own new website, Stephen Bodio On the Web, which includes the blog "Querencia". With Jonathan in deep Sonoran desert territory near Tucson, Chas in the Rockies, and me in the South- Central New Mexico high country, we certainly have a lot of our region's diverse ecosystems covered (not that any of us are likely to confine our opinions to our own backyards).

I suspect all this cross- fertilization will have us all posting more, on our own and other's blogs...