Southern Rockies Nature Blog

¶ Was a Tasmanian eco-activist murdered in 1972? Book, documentary reveal an official reluctance to investigate the death of Brenda Hean . ¶...

Some years ago, I worked part-time for a small Colorado Springs public-relations agency whose head had bailed out of p.r. work in Detroit in...

The 2009 Lords, Ladies & Gamekeepers calendar is now for sale . Certain Taos literary references come to mind. (Via The Englishman .)

Ten tips for driving in steep terrain , which I am sure that many of this blog's readers do. The photos show the show-off stuff on slick...

This spot along the Arkansas River near Avondale, Colorado, suggests a North American exhibit in the Museum of Nomadics. It includes, from l...

Early builders of heavier-than-air craft tried to imitate birds, but no human has the chest and back muscles to flap a set of wings. But an ...

John Orr at Coyote Gulch summarizes speculation about who will be the next Secretary of the Interior , a big item for us Westerners. I have ...

My friend Ron and I hit a couple of scaled-quail spots on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. We did not see a one, which makes me wond...

Settle down, Jack! I will blog about your and Zeke's hunting trip as soon as I have worked on the freelance job that pays money.

The weather is unseasonably warm. The price of gasoline is falling. Scaled quail are in season. It's time to go messing around in El Cua...

A shocker: the Branch Inn on Pueblo's Union Avenue exploded this afternoon . (It even had a MySpace page -- what would JoJo have though...

Costs of the Bureau of Land Management's wild-horse management program are spiraling out of control, reports the Denver Post . Far more...

More confusing climate data. The University of Illinois has a site that lets you compare satellite photos of the Arctic ice cap from one ye...

• Walking in the cities . Walking can do that to you: take you to places you don't expect to go, people you don't expect to meet, en...

I have a childhood memory of going on a "nature walk" with someone (in Boy Scouts? at the old Jefferson County, Colo., camp for 6t...