Spring Creek Basin’s cover girls: Alegre and Houdini.
Alegre might have gotten a little dusty between model takes, but gosh. Gorgeous!
Easily beautiful
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Deep, dark blue is the color of a teasing sky
3 07 2017
Yes, those are stormy clouds in the background, beyond Brumley Point and Sundance.
Lightning strikes caused at least two fires well south of the basin (called in) … and a few drops of rain fell across a seemingly isolated band of area in lower Disappointment Valley but, as far as I could tell, none in Spring Creek Basin. But maybe we’re getting closer to more widespread drops (though not according to the forecast).
If you’re camping and/or celebrating our nation’s Independence Day, please be careful.
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Assessments, Day 2
22 06 2017Yesterday was Day 2 of the Land Health Assessment in Spring Creek Basin.
Yep, it was hot. Yep, the gnats were still bad (but yours truly remembered her head net).
Mike Jensen, Justin Hunt and Nate West were back to assess more of Spring Creek Basin’s land health. We did some great sites, and a couple of them were higher, which allowed for great views!
BLM range management specialist Mike Jensen and range tech Justin Hunt walk a site in Spring Creek Basin with views of McKenna Peak and Temple Butte.
At the end of each site assessment, Justin and Mike took pix in two directions for future comparisons.
We don’t have many trees in Spring Creek Basin, so many of the sites were the wide-open places (as in the photos above). But we had a couple of sites that were in pinon-juniper woodlands. This site (and the one pictured above) had really great grass.
And then we headed uphill for our last site of the day.
Which led to an amazing view. Straight ahead is Brumley Point, and at the farthest left is one side of McKenna Peak.
Those who go up must go down! Especially when the truck is at the bottom. 🙂
Big thanks to BLM’s Mike Jensen, Justin Hunt and Nate West for persevering on these hot days to assess the land health of Spring Creek Basin. Again, as far as I can tell, we’re in pretty good shape.
We think this little guy (gal?) might agree. 🙂
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Categories : Advocacy, Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, Education, McKenna Peak, Mustangs, Partnership, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte, Work projects
Hazy, lazy days
20 06 2017
Hot days ahead. We have relief and cooler temps at night, but sunlight hours are toasty
Stay cool out there, folks.
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Watching
10 06 2017
It’s nice to be the band stallion when you have a lieutenant to fight your battles for you. 🙂
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Still shaggy
5 04 2017
Brumley Point looks like some kind of dormant volcano in this stormy image of spotted girls Spirit and Puzzle.
We’re so grateful for the rain we’ve gotten lately in Southwest Colorado, and particularly in Spring Creek Basin and greater Disappointment Valley. This is the fuel our grasses need to feed our wildlife.
Though they’re shedding, the horses still have shaggy coats. Nature knows what it knows. We watch it unfold with great anticipation.
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Purple clouds = rain
2 04 2017
It did. 🙂 Rain, that is.
Love, love, love, LOVE the moisture!
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Snow scenes
25 03 2017
Did I mention that we got rain? Upper Disappointment Valley got some white stuff. 🙂 That’s McKenna Peak in the foreground.
Iconic and locally relevant and important-to-us Temple Butte.
Brumley Point.
A different perspective showing Brumley Point in the foreground and Temple Butte in the background. Brumley Point is mostly within Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area. Temple Butte is just outside the basin’s boundary.
Temple Butte and Brumley Point, along with McKenna Peak, are in McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, which overlaps the eastern, southeastern and southern portions of Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area.
All three features are prominent from just about anywhere in Spring Creek Basin. The elder Mr. Brumley was a prominent member of the local community, and was a rancher and timber man; Pati and David Temple were and are prominently involved with advocating for Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs. I haven’t been able to learn anything about McKenna, but with a peak and a wilderness study area named after him, he (?) must also have made significant contributions to the region.
After the unseasonably warm, dry weather we’ve been having, it seems wild to see snow on the ridges, but the ground and vegetation needs it badly, and we’re immensely glad for the snow and the rain!
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
A little (lotta) magic
25 02 2017
Not many words needed for these images, either. That’s a rainbow right over Temple Butte, guardian of Spring Creek Basin’s southeastern boundary … but as prominent as it is, ALL of Spring Creek Basin.
It has been four years (and a few weeks) since Pati Temple passed away. We miss her every day. And we feel her with us every single day.
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Temple Butte
A little light
24 02 2017
Our famous Colorado sunshine has been a little lacking this winter, so we enjoy every bit of it (well, we do that anyway, but it seems particularly valuable this year). 🙂
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 