A Profusion of April Flowers in Southwest New Mexico
FOLLOWING AN EXCEPTIONALLY MOIST LATE WINTER AND MARCH, AN AMAZING EXTRAVAGANCE OF RARELY-SEEN WILD FLOWERS EMERGES AT CASITAS DE GILA GUESTHOUSES IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THE EXCEPTIONAL 2015 BLOOMING OF SPRING FLOWERS CONTINUES The March 2015 Blog focused on the exceptional blooming of the first early Spring flowers to be seen at Casitas de […]
THE SUPER-VOLCANOES OF THE GILA WILDERNESS
Thanks to the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, and other mass media documentaries, most people have heard of super-volcanoes: large-scale geologic features, which when they become active, can spew 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) or more of ejected material in the form of lava, molten rock fragments and ash over vast […]