My Quest for Badger
Scouring Carrizo Plain for
These Hoarders of the High Veld
Story and Photos by Chuck Graham | June 8, 2023
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It was mid-May 2022, and the text came in at 11 p.m. as I was driving south across the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
“I have a badger,” wrote my friend, the wildlife cinematographer Mark Romanov, who was heading north into the monument. “I’ve got some new tools.”
I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I was intrigued. He pinpointed his location on Soda Lake Road, a track I tend to drive at a snail’s pace. But photographing badgers had eluded me ever since I began visiting this last stretch of California’s semi-arid grasslands back in 2006, so I drove faster than normal.
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