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Southwestern Guesthouses on 265 Acres
near Silver City, New Mexico
overlooking Bear Creek and the Gila Wilderness

Casitas de Gila Nature Blog

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

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JAVELINAS AT THE DOORSTEP

This morning I went out for a walk along the Big Tree Trail with our two English Springer Spaniels, Bower (age 4) and Chloe (age 2). Just as we came out of the woods to cross Bear Creek on our return to the Casitas, we suddenly came

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1,000 POUND BIRDS

Becky’s contribution to Michael’s Gila Nature Blog Ever since we began letting our two horses, Yaqui and Saino, graze on the 30 acres immediately surrounding the Casitas, we’ve had a problem with the bird seed. Each Casita has a bird feeder and a can full of birdseed.

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The Starry Skies of Our Milky Way in Spring

  HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR GALAXY LATELY? Sadly, according to an article in Cosmos magazine, it would be difficult for an increasing number of people to give a positive response to this question because more than one-fifth of the World population, one-half of the European Union population,

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Seeking Southwest Turquoise

Earlier this week Becky and I made our 10th annual pilgrimage to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Showcase to purchase materials for her jewelry making. The Tucson Gem Show is always held over a two-week period at the end of January and the first part of February.

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NEW TRAIL! The Hidden Spring Trail

As of this week, a new trail is open for guests staying at Casitas de Gila. This new trail is located on the northern end of our property and transects a 4.5 acre piece of land that we acquired in late 2010. This trail is short, only

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SHEEP FOR THE HOLIDAYS

About two weeks before Christmas, three Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep – two ewes and a huge ram with a magnificent set of double-curled horns – took up residence on the cliffs above Bear Creek directly in front of the Casitas. They stayed with us right through Christmas

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THE GREAT GILA BLIZZARD

The New Year dawns bright, but cold – very cold – reaching a low of 9°F overnight, with about 3 inches of snow still blanketing the ground from the big storm of Thursday, December 30. It’s a white New Year’s Day for sure, with the one-seed Junipers

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