Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Last May, the local weekly reacted predictably when the editor learned that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

In case you needed another one, here is one more reason why Saudi Arabia is a sick society.

Butterflies on musk thistle (Carduus nutans) Here are the butterflies sipping nectar from a thistle. Happy happy butterflies. Everyone like...

Senator Ken Salazar's recent op-ed piece in The Washington Post about oil shale reminds me of the cynical old saying about Argentina: I...

¶ I thought that every rural deputy sheriff could recognize marijuana plants -- but evidently not in Mississippi . ¶ Squirrels: Are you with...

Looking south across the Hayman Burn with Sheep Nose in the distance, July 2008. In January 2003, just before my father's death, he and ...

M. and I spent a long weekend with a group of friends who meet annually at Wellington Lake , southwest of Denver. Down the shoreline from us...

Even with mystery beasts running amuck in eastern El Paso County , it's time for me to take a slight blogging break. M. and I are headin...

A spinoff from a survey of foodborne disease, as reported by the Washington Post , is that t here really are gender differences in food pref...

I was sitting on the porch of the rental cabin yesterday when I saw the first rufous hummingbird of the summer . The clock of the seasons h...

A "guerrilla garden" on a city right-of-way puts a Boulder man in conflict with the city . Is the problem, as one commenter says, ...

Superfast muscles make bird song possible . "We discovered that the European starling (found throughout Eurasia and North America) and ...

¶ Dachshunds are the most aggressive species . One of the main dogs of my childhood was a dachshund: truly a Doberman in a 15-pound package....

Just what do terms like "conservative" and "liberal" mean when it comes to food? Rod " Crunchy Con " Dreher in...

Here is a screen grab from the BBC's Science/Nature news web site two days ago. Is it any wonder that people are confused about what to ...