Southern Rockies Nature Blog

The short focal-length iPhone camera exaggerates his size a bit.  On the 21st of August, M. and I were having brunch on the veranda wh...

Nine years after the big fire. Monday we hiked one of our favorite old trails , severely burned over in 2005. That fire was followed by ...

¶ Oh no! New Mexico chile production is falling . Pueblo County will just have to take up the slack. ¶ I doubt that Timothy Bal of Belle M...

The conference on re-creating extinct species that that Chris Clarke was blogging has come and gone, but there is still good stuff at the l...

Trees burned in the 2010 Schultz fire. Image: Flickr/Coconino National Forest • Coloradans: your fishing licenses expire on Sunday. And...

Bathing at Pagosa Springs, Colorado. See third link below. •  I did not know it at the time , but I spent most of my childhood in the ...

• Off-topic but fascinating. Sewer-diving in Mexico City (with video). Sewer-cleaning the "fatbergs"  in London (with video). M...

I own the book. I have now watched the film . I realize that I am unlikely to ever see the cave. (Maybe the last is all right, because it ...

The Pleistocene, when men were men and mammoth bones framed your house. (Mammoth Site museum, Hot Springs, South Dakota) Russian and Ko...

President Obama recently signed a law ending the ban on horse-slaughter plants. A June report by the Government Accountability Office , Co...

It's too busy managing its investments. From the New York Post : HSUS's advertisements employ the images of downtrodden dogs an...

• Do people really say this ? I thought it was just an urban legend. From the meta-social media site White Wine , found via the meta-meta so...

Farmer-writer Frank James explains the obvious about why there are so many unwanted horses and problems with neglected horses. Horses essen...

Patrick Burns, who knows something about direct-mail and lobbying, describes how the Humane Society of the United States lies about its memb...

Over at Hardscrabble Times, Hal Walter mentions his appearance in Haulin' Ass , a documentary about the uniquely Colorado summer sport ...

Walking toward our eastbound train at Chicago's Union Station one evening last week, I saw people pointing at something on the train tra...

• Trainer killed by ice-skating bear . Because putting bears on ice skates is still a hoot in the former Soviet Union. • The amazing survi...

¶ The Colorado Division of Wildlife advises that you think about mountain lions when landscaping. The only problem is that if you took all ...

That the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills most of the animals that it takes into its shelters is becoming com...

Mary Scriver muses on the churchiness of animal-rights groups , particularly the Humane Society of the United States: If the Humane Society ...