Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Portions of Backcountry Discovery Routes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. T his blog post's title quotes a comment on anoth...

 Previous: CPW Tries Again with British Columbian Wolves . Watersheds visited by wolves from late December 2024–late January 2025. Click to ...

"Fladry" deters wolves, they say. ( USA Today ). Previous wolfage: " Ute Tribe Faces Down Colorado over Wolves " With th...

Early January 2024: the blue stain of the tree-killing fungus is all over the big pine's sapwood My wife told me she could feel that bi...

A suitably logo'd Governor Polis releases a wolf in December 2023. An odd news release from Colorado Parks and Wildlife popped up in my ...

Walking up the dirt road in back of the house on December day, I saw these feathers. Obviously a Steller's jay had met a recent and vio...

Someone in my area left their anti-Prop. 127 sign up well past Election Day. First, let me say that I am still in the blogging game. There w...

  A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I s...

  M ost birds, when you release them into the wild, take off like rockets. Owls at night, hawks and songbirds by the day — all the same.  No...

B ack in 2017, a columnist for the Taos News wrote about Pot Creek, the area's " best-kept secret archaeological site. " It w...

The S pring Creek Fire ripped through big parts of Costilla and Huerfano counties in southern Colorado in June-July 2018. Periodically I dri...

A bull moose in Colorado (Photo: Backcountry Hunters and Anglers) I personally never saw a Colorado moose until 2019 -- in North Park , of ...

    From All About Birds , Cornell University's great birding site (I rely on it a lot), comes a review of pocket binoculars: " Our...

The northern border of the Chihuahan Desert in is (very roughly) US 50 and the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. It forms an "...

I was out crawling around in the scrub oaks looking for mushrooms earlier, and I found this nest.  (As for mushrooms, a few elderly Shaggy P...