Southern Rockies Nature Blog

The day started clear, and I heard flickers, robins , and blackbirds singing when I left home to travel to the university. Around 3 p.m., a ...

I took this photo yesterday along the north edge of the Mason Gulch Burn, which burned in July 2005 and which covers at least 11,000 acres ...

In his latest column for Colorado Central , also available through High Country News , my neighbor Hal Walter faces winter claustrophobia, g...

Southern Colorado is thawing out a little bit this week. My rubber snow boots , caked in mud, sit drying on the front porch. Fifteen inches ...

The Cottonwood Institute in Crestone, Colorado, offers a "Back to the Stone Age" week-long camp for high-school students. We will...

KeKexili: Mountain Patrol is simply stark. Stark plot, stark scenery, stark cinematography. As stark as one of John Ford's classic Monu...

We step outside our usual Colorado/New Mexico milieu for this one. Heavy snow (6 inches/15 cm--don't snicker) has fallen in Britain , an...

My readers who are familiar with Central Asia (the both of youse) may enjoy this news. Stranded in the customer lounge of the Jeep dealer...

K. mentioned Hara Estroff Marano's article "A Nation of Wimps" that appeared in Psychology Today . She also has a web site to...

There must be joy in Norfolk: Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook were found to be guilty only of littering when they dropped dog and cat carcasses...

I drove home this evening in a white and grey landscape on Colorado 96. For part of the trip, there were no cars ahead of me and no cars in ...

From the Better Late Than Never Dept.: The Goat reports that Ed Abbey's classic piece of enviro-fiction is finally being prepared for th...

It's a new politically savvy voice of dog owners: Dog Politics . They are watching the PETA "We Kill Dogs Better" trial , of c...

USA Today featured today an article on a growing--but not completely solid--consensus that human doings have more to do with current clima...

Dolores LaChapelle of Silverton, Colorado, died January 22 at an advanced age . (She was still skiing deep powder in her seventies.) She be...