Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Some National Weather service video from Saturday afternoon, April 30, 2022. As three fires burn west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, a dust storm...

All the worries these days . So here is James McMurtry's " Choctaw Bingo ." You know who his daddy is , right? I mainly li...

John Wesley Powell, 1834–1902 (Wikipedia) Driving across the country, I like to play the game of "Where does the West begin?" ...

You probably don't remember it, unless you are over ninety. But see the right-hand blob of the red area? That's pretty much the c...

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...

Mountain Plover (Cornell Univ.) Another news story on the upcoming annual Kaval mountain plover festival. Or how a tiny farming town, f...

Kenton, Oklahoma , is somewhere on my list of Towns to Disappear To." It is possible, though, that Kenton might disappear first. You ...

I posted recently about the galloping depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer ( "We're on the last kick," he said. "The bulk wa...