Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Fred Borsch holds Tootsie during Deadwood's 1950 "Days of '76" Parade (South Dakota Public Broadcasting).   My boyhood in ...

Northbound, breaking free of the Colorado Front Range corridor I don't drive Interstate 25 north of Denver very often, but when I do...

The Fiddlin' Foresters Am I opening presents early, when Smokeymas is still a week away? Not really, I found this CD, "In the L...

Colorado Springs Gazette columnist Bill Radford notices the tumbleweed hordes of 2013.  Oh yeah. I am not one of those people who goes aro...

US 85, going up the western edge of the Black Hills in eastern Wyoming.

I wonder how many people drive past the Bear Country USA private zoo on US 16 near Rapid City and find themselves modifying Joni Mitchell...

Just a couple of things left to say about our trip to the Black Hills. One sneaked up on us after we had been there two or three days--the q...

Above: Earthwatch volunteers excavate Columbian mammoth skeletons. The skull of a short-faced bear sits on the green sheet of paper at low...

Above: Kids peer up at calcite crystals as our Park Service tour guide describes the formation of Jewel Cave. Outdoor travel in late Septemb...

Above: the State Game Lodge at Custer State Park , built in the 1920s, with its two recent wings. One way in which Custer State Park resembl...

Wind Cave National Park ranger Garrett Roke leads a tour underground. It happened several time that when M. and I told friends we were going...

Today we leave Custer County on our way to Custer County (the one with Custer State Park ) in it. The great cavalry tactician has quite a f...

A news photog's shots of a recent prescribed burn at Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills -- interesting to me partly because I ...