Southern Rockies Nature Blog

  I'm using the broad definition, not the Kansas-centric one . And it's the Colorado Otero County, not the New Mexican Otero. But bo...

A couple of days ago, I checked the trail camera nearest the house, located about 80 yards up  the ridge in back. With apologies for the inf...

A straight road in the Pawnee Nat. Gransslands. Not CO 71. S ome years back I was flying from London (Gatwick) to Denver, across the Atlanti...

The Northern Lights seen in eastern Colorado (Colorado Parks and Wildlife).  This past week has seen the Northern Lights visible as far sout...

The last bobcat, ready to be sent to his new temporary home.   The half-grown bobcat hissed and snarled as Tom Sanders of Wet Mountain Wildl...

Search dog and handler (Front Range Rescue Dogs)  A recent article in the online  Colorado Sun  by J ason Blevins describes how  Vail Mount...

The lone horse grazes at the Blue Heron Ponds near Florence, Colo. S ometimes when headed north I stop at some old gravel pits (now full of ...

Search and rescue volunteers are briefed before heading out. (Conejos County Sheriff's Office) The search for two missing bowhunters, An...

  Oshman's 7 x 35 um . . . optical instrument I inherited this/these from my stepmother, Catharine. She was no outdoorswoman, but I can ...

Young porcupine at a rehabilitation center in Colorado.   W hen I was a boy, my dad was a US Forest Service district ranger. That meant he w...

I've always looked out for her virtue, but I went into a shopping mall Barnes & Noble, and when I came out, Blanca, my refrigerator-...

"Displacement of eroded sandstone by Ursus americanus." I live at the bottom of a steep ridge wtih exposed sandstone rock strata a...

The bobcats in June, hostile and ready to go wild. I not only got to release some bobcats recently, but I got to pick the place, which felt ...

Close-up of buffalo in a squeeze chute. (Owen Preece for HCN ) High Country News  ran this article last March on the work of the "head ...

What a change a week makes. Last week my email blew up with responses to the possible sale of public lands  in the West, thanks to language ...