Dipper Ranch

Windscorpian    It's walnut harvest time. There's going to be a big crop and lots of neighbors and friends to share the bounty...

Eyed by newt on the landslide road. Is it a loathsome creature or a fairy?    When is a newt not a newt?  When it is a lizard?  When ...

slender salamander   I was sad to learn of the recent passing of the great herpetologist Robert C. Stebbins.  Long before I met him ...

Southern alligator lizard ( Elgaria multicarinata ) sunning next to filaree seedlings. Last week we got the first rain of the season on ...

Santa Cruz gartersnake cruising over yellow starthistle seedling. This subspecies has a whitish to lemon-yellow throat. While surveyi...

Rain and snow greeted newly arrived cattle in December 2009 Cowboy V called today and he'll start trucking in cattle soon.  This week...