Page 18 - Black Range Naturalist Oct 2020
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   2nd Edition of “Walks in the Black Range”
When the Black Range Website published “Walks in the Black Range” (photo above) in May of this year, it announced that a second edition would follow in (about) May of 2021. It immediately became apparent that a second edition, if published in one volume, would be a huge work - a very large electronic file (a problem for some readers in our land of limited internet capability).
Therefore, the second edition of “Walks In the Black Range” has been divided into four volumes to make it easier to download and store. They are:
Volume 1: The Eastern Foothills North of NM-152; Volume 2: The Eastern Foothills South of NM-152; Volume 3: The Black Range North of NM-152; and Volume 4: The Black Range South of NM-152.
Volume 1 of the second edition, cover shown upper right, was issued in July. Other volumes will follow on roughly a quarterly basis.
The area covered in this volume has been heavily impacted by human activity. Many of the walks described in this volume are along old mining (now ranching) roads and generally lead into areas where there was mining activity. One way to react to such a disturbed landscape is to crawl within oneself and suck a thumb. Another is to relish the degree to which the landscape has blossomed again - literally. And, instead of relegating the mining activities to a closet, we can treat these walks as walks into history. Each walk description in this volume includes a significant amount of historical material about the mining which happened in this area.
New Road Video - Tierra Blanca
The “arterial roads” of the Black Range (NM-152, NM-61, NM-35, NM-59, NM-26, and NM-27) sometimes provide access to the trailheads of the Black Range. Sometimes those trailheads can be accessed only by “collector/ distributor roads” which are universally unpaved and sometimes quite rough. The Black Range Website hosts an extensive collection of road videos which include the arterials and most of the collector/distributor roads. In May, the website posted its latest addition, “Tierra Blanca Road”, which depicts the road from NM-27 westward to the trailhead of Forest Trail 135.
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