June 29, 2005

It's him, it's him

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So M. and I stop in at the Hotel Jerome bar in Aspen for a mid-afternoon drink, and there he is: Hunter S. Thompson : lanky, sunglasses, li...
June 28, 2005

Gleaming white stone

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A part of Colorado that I had never seen before (nor had M.) was the Crystal River valley up from Carbondale through Redstone and Marble . ...
June 24, 2005

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Are they talking about you ? Researchers discover that the number of "dees" in the chick-a-dee-dee-dee call of the black-capped c...
June 22, 2005

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It all comes down to water Colorado Luis heralds the return of Bob Morris' Politics of Water blog. Bob is from southern California, bu...
June 21, 2005

Commerce of the Prairie

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Nicole of Plastic Daisies takes a clear-eyed look at camping in southeastern Colorado Wanting to escape from our original escape (follow th...
June 20, 2005

The Forest Service - II

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While the Black Hills National Forest was the laboratory for conducting timber sales, the San Isabel NF here in southern Colorado was for ...
June 14, 2005

The Forest Service - I

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Earlier this month there was a little celebration of the 100th anniversary of the US Forest Service up in Westcliffe, the county seat. A lit...
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June 11, 2005

The Bird in the Road

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This morning M. and I were driving to town when we saw a small bird standing in our lane of Colorado 96. There was no traffic, so I swerved ...
June 10, 2005

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It's a natural right Thanks to Robert "Pol Pot" Mugabe, a Canadian blogger who has always looked askance at gun-totin' Ame...

Talking--and thinking--in birds

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Guest post by Steve Bodio . I have always been fairly unimpressed with the "linguistic" exploits of our closest genetic relatives...
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June 08, 2005

The Trouble (or not) with Cormorants

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Driving with M. up to Tom Hirt's hat shop in Penrose today to order a birthday-present Panama hat, I saw a cormorant fly overhead as we...
June 06, 2005

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"The Ungulates" Does this happen to you? You're hiking or cycling or backpacking and a tune just gets stuck in your head? Toda...

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New southwestern nature blogs are popping up like spadefoot toads after a desert rain. Chas has asked me to mention Jonathan Hanson's ic...
June 01, 2005

Oaks are nothing special

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And that is the reason for their worldwide success, says William Bryant Logon in the L.A. Times But the oaks have never sought a niche. ...
May 31, 2005

Darkness at Noon

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Britons feud over sudden shade in the back garden . Now there is a campaign against problem hedges . Bureaucrats become involved . The villa...