Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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...

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...