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Pumping water from an underground cistern does not have to involve electricity. It can be quite rustic and involve relatively little labor.
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During October 2020, Rebecca Porter of Hillsboro found the Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum) skull shown to the right and on the cover of this issue. She was walking in Warm Springs Wash east of Hillsboro when she made the discovery. Randy Gray discussed this species, and the other horned lizard species found in the Black Range, in the January 2019 issue of this magazine.
These are small lizards, generally not more than 4.3” long, including tail, or 2.7” without. The photograph to the right is from the Black Range website; the range map for the species, shown on the following page, is from the Bison-M program accessed at the link shown. (This data base contains a great deal of information and is one of the better research tools available to us.)
The Loggerhead Shrike on the back cover may have been the individual which harvested the lizard and placed it on a thorn for a later meal. Except to the west, where they are absent, Loggerhead Shrikes are generally found in the areas surrounding the Black Range throughout the year, as shown
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