Southern Rockies Nature Blog

  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 ...

On May 4, 2025, a  47-year-old Florida man was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. He survived.  “We see about two or three (biso...

  Echinocereus triglochidiatus,  the claret cup cactus, is the state cactus of Colorado. Yes, since 2014. And here you thought the Legislat...

L ate in May (a month when I did not blogging, sorry, but I had reasons), my wife and I made a short trip to Taos, New Mexico, to decompress...

Urban river trail, Fort Collins, Colorado W hen I was a kid in Fort Collins, we enjoyed the Cache la Poudre River — upstream from the city. ...

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...