Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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

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

This is outside the Southern Rockies, but M. and I are in Salem, Massachusetts right now, where a Boston television station carried this re...

It's a good year for wild sunflowers. Links. Do I have links. They sprout like sunflowers on the prairie. • How to improve your ou...

Coyote and badger at Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado. Kimberly Fraser, USFWS A US Fish and Wildlife Service...

Coyote in Douglas fir and oak brush. This coyote turned up on a scout camera last week, which vindicated what I was thinking — that alth...

Bears biting backpackers. Mountain lions munching mountain bikers. Every time that some carnivorous critter bites or kills a human, ther...

¶ Peter Grant at Bayou Renaissance Man comes down firmly in the price-versus-quality debate in regard to knives, axes, and machetes. He and...

An update on the attack by three coyotes on a northern Colorado man earlier this month . Colorado Parks and Wildlife news release: DENVE...

An online Scientific American article says that both canine distemper and sarcoptic mange are affecting wolf populations in Yellowstone Nat...

More lethargic than he had been last night. This coyote pup, found weak and dehydrated by a road somewhere in the area yesterday, came i...

A remarkably mellow resident of British Columbia dealing with a too-aggressive coyote (Language warning). I know a Jack Russell terrier...

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

Consider the life of the urban wildlife biologist. No hiking, no sleeping in tents. You collar and tag your species of concern , then toss t...

A pair of gray foxes. As we move further into winter, the foxes are becoming noisy at night. Maybe this is a courting pair. The scout ca...

Scat gathered from a large western Colorado ranch that was thought to have some wild wolves turns out to have been deposited by coyotes ins...

More evidence on top predators and overall health of the land , this time from Isle Royal National Park. Research at Yellowstone NP showed s...

• 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 Environmental Protection Agency works on stronger rules for hardrock mining clean-up. • Why your kid needs an aquarium . • It is, the ...

• A landowner near Granada, Colorado, sees more water after tamarisk is controlled-- but it's a constant fight . • An Englishman tries t...