Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Chadwick Matlin at Slate suggests that the shopping mall as a retail environment is finished . Rod Dreher agrees and has interesting reade...

Begin with a driverless Jeep Liberty with an iffy parking brake left in neutral (my fault). Add gravity, snow, oak brush, and a gully. Then ...

Here in southern Colorado, we don't need the New York Times to tell us that people burn coal at home -- it's always been that way....

Buried in a Colorado State Parks plan for more trails at Lake Pueblo State Park lies--surprise!--a plan to collect more fees from park vis...

M. and I went for a walk in the Mason Gulch Burn today. It was a sort of "edge day" for weather -- a storm to the west, clear skie...

Just a reminder: Your 2008 Colorado small-game or fishing license is good through March 31, 2009. I like that change because it forestalls ...

• We drove home from Florence today in graupel . M., who grew up in the Hudson Valley, says she never saw it before she arrived in Colorado...

You open a Western antiques shop in an old house on East Main Street in Florence, which is zoned commercial. You think, "A bear on the ...

Yes, I already knew that the Virgin Mary was fond of spinach. I learned to cook partly from George Herter, as my tattered copy of Bull Cook...

Sometimes when I am bouncing over the snowy ruts of our road in my rattletrap Jeep CJ-5, wind tearing at its soft top, I think, "I need...

Back in the 1970s, Newsweek ran an article about night-shift work and life as the "frontier" -- less authority, more marginal char...

The Cañon City Daily Record profiles district wildlife manager Bob Carochi . On poachers: “At least 95 percent of the folks I deal with are ...

According to the Denver Post , Senator Ken Salazar will accept the post of Secretary of the Interior . As one-time employees (in a small way...

Via Cat Urbigkit , a report on the usual conflicts over proposed wolf reintroduction in the Southern Rockies . WildEarth Guardians recently ...

A little off-topic for this blog, but I wanted to share this link about abandoned sites in Antarctica and nearby islands . For obvious reaso...