Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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...

Buffalo at the Navajo-owe Wolf Springs Ranch. (Photo: Ranch Marketing Assn.) L ook at the banner photo on this blog, and you will see at low...

     • A new drought map. January-March 2022 precipitation hit some record lows. I am relieved to be living in one of the green areas on th...

Clickbait? That is nothing new. Watch Kirk Douglas as obnoxious, erratic, but talented reporter Chuck Tatum in the 1951 noir film Ace in th...

Earlier Posts: (1) Barry Lopez (2) Pentti Linkola  I am fudging this one just a little. The anthropologist Richard Nelson (b. 1941) actua...

A wintry view of the riparian area in or near Santa Ana Pueblo, photographed from Amtrak's Southwest Chief on November 20th. Br...

I have just started reading Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash. Rash, a poet and novelist, has deep roots in western North Carolina. I chose...

A small pine has grown in a U shape, trying to reach sunlight from inside a thicket of Gambel oak. I could show you the same thing on my ...

The bridge across the Missouri River on US 212 near Charger's Camp. Friday found me driving through western South Dakota's butte...

It was big news in paleontology circles in the 1990s when private fossil hunters in western South Dakota unearthed an outstanding Tyrannos...

The rented Taos apartment's doormat depicts Kokopelli, "hump-backed flute player," a fertility deity of some Southwester...

This has not been getting much coverage outside of southern Colorado, but the Navajo Nation has purchased two large ranches in Huerfano and ...

After reading a lot of mystery novels by Peter Bowen and Keith McCafferty (Montana) plus Craig Johnson and C. J. Box ( Wyoming), I have a...

Other linkage: ¶ Alaska writer Craig Medred proposes some cures for "bus madness," in other words, the pilgrims and wannabes ...

1870s cavalry trooper At the end of the Civil War, H. H. McConnell had served in a Union volunteer regiment (i.e., not Regular Army) — h...

This is the time of year when people are booking tours to the dance grounds (leks) of sage grouse and prairie chickens. If the tours are...

Pitchers from Chaco Culture National Historic Park Via Western Digs , more study of Anasazi pottery residue shows that people — at least...

• Illegal campsites are usually trashy. Yes, that's a stereotype, but stereotypes have to come from somewher e. And when you have tras...

"Yuma Landing 1885" by George Rothrock (Wikimedia Commons). The Colorado River today is not big enough for steamboats at Yum...