Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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...

Two reliable guidebooks — and some elderly Shaggy Parasols A post on X-formerly-Twitter two days ago linked to another post on Reddit that ...

The 2011 Sand Gulch Fire on the San Isabel NF just before it blew up to 2500 acres.  If you wonder where wildfires ignite in Colorado, follo...

Last April, while visiting the Virginia coast for my wife's family reunion (more on that below), I held out for the one thing that I wan...

  '"Type O — yes !" O ne day a few years ago, my wife and I were walking one summer's afternoon along the Riverwalk in Cañ...

I leaned my spinning rod against a milkweed and then saw that someone was already there. It's a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, but I am n...

 Fishing on Sunday evening at Lake Isabel far-west Pueblo County, Colorado. An upslope flow pushes fog up the St. Charles River — a reverse-...

O ur friends at Wet Mountain Wildlife received these bobcat cubs last year, and in May they were released near where they (or at least one)...

You can complain about Instagrammers and "influencers" jamming up in pretty places, but now they are ruining hailstorms. "Sto...

Male catkins mix with new leaves on Gambel Oak. Walking around, I see a pretty good mix of leaves and flowers on the scrub (Gambel) oak . B...