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The Gambling Bird is a colorful bird that is part of the songbird family and has a very beautiful song.

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The Mountain Chickadee has a black head with white cheeks and grey sides. It eats mostly insects such as caterpillars and beetles, but also some seeds and berries. They are fearless birds that are very inquisitive, and are constantly foraging for food.

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The Western Red Rocky Mountain Columbine.

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The Western Red Rocky Mountain Columbine.

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The Western Red Columbine is red and yellow with five petals that often droop. It typically grows 6-12 inches, and can be found at high elevations on rocky slopes. It is used by hummingbirds now and in the past as food because the red of the plant attracts them.

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The elk is one of the largest in the deer family and is mostly native to North America and Asia. The normal meal for an Elk is grass, leaves, bark and other plants. Some of the predators are wolves and Mountain Lions.

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The  Ponderosa Pine is a  tree that as it grows it becomes a cone shape.  The pine needles on the tree are sharp which protect the tree.

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Scientific names: Pinus ponderosa

Alternate Names: Western Yellow Pine, Blackjack Pine

Description: An evergreen, open-branched tree forming an open pyramid when young, becoming a short-conical head in age. It is native to western North America, adapted to well drained soils in Arizona and New Mexico. It occurs as dominant trees in mixed coniferous forests or as open pure stands. Ponderosa is intolerant to the heat and wind of the desert, but its adaptability and drought tolerance have brought it wide use in shelterbelts and ornamental plantings. It is moderately slow-growing, especially in early years, but is very long-lived. It has a root system with deep taproot, therefore is windfirm.
Cones: Reddish to yellow-brown elliptic cones, 3 to 8 inches long, scales thick at apex with a definite prickle.

Seeds: winged, brown-purple.

Needles: In fascicles of 2 to 5 (usually 3)

Bark: Brown-black and deeply furrowed when young, becoming cinnamon red-brown, irregular plates in age.

Elevation: Up to 9,000 feet

Height: 45 to 150 feet

Zones: 5 to 9

Water: 13 to 16 inches precipitation equivalent, drought-tolerant but will not tolerate high water table.

Uses: It is among the most important timber trees of the west. Its lumber is especially suited for window frames and panel doors.

Also widely used as a landscape tree and as the central rows of windbreaks and screens.

Wildlife: Of some importance as food and cover for many birds and small mammals, occasionally including whitetail and mule deer. Chipmunks store the cones in caches, thus aiding dispersal.

Management and Care: There are no known serious disease or insect problems, although pine tip moth and mountain pine beetle could become serious pests. Not good in desert heat & wind.

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Scientific names: Pinus ponderosa Alternate Names: Western Yellow Pine, Blackjack Pine Description: An evergreen, open-branched tree forming an open pyramid when young, becoming a short-conical head in age. It is native to western North America, adapted to well drained soils in Arizona and New Mexico.

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The New Mexican Mountain Lion's size range is between 72-108 inches. They are very quiet and secretive by nature which makes it easier to surprise and kill their prey. They are also ambush predators that eat hoofed mammals such as cattle, pigs, sheep, deer, etc.

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Black bears, Bobcats, Chipmunks, Deer, Elk, Mountain Lions, Quails, and Wild Turkeys.

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Ponderosa Pine, Scrub Oak, wildflowers, the wildflowers are Columbine, Pennyroyal, Orange Indian Paintbrush, NM Groundsel, bright red Penstemon, and purple Lupine.

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The moist earth in the Transition Mountain Zone makes it a place where a lot of trees and plants will be happy to grow. The trees there are much taller than the trees in other parts of the state because of how much more water there is.

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It rains about 18-26 inches every year, usually during the late summer months to early fall.

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The temperature usually ranges from 20'F to 88'F annually.

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The elevation is 7,000 to 8,500 feet above sea level.