Southern Rockies Nature Blog

What is odd is that I saw this in the online New York Times , but not in the Denver Post or Pueblo Chieftain . National Public Radio's...

More volunteer work for the Division of Wildlife today: I spent about three hours cleaning camping areas and chatting with a couple of DOW ...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are Great Artistes, and zey have une grande vision artistique called " Over the River ." Those Colora...

Two of the common Opuntia cactus in the woods--the claret cup in bloom and another mini-prickly pear living on a boulder in what must be ju...

• A list of nature books for young readers from the John Burroughs Association. • Famous Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki suffers a p...

It is raining right now, hurray, but rain cannot be counted on here in the Southwest. For certain flower and vegetable beds, soaker hoses o...

Not wanting to see a repeat of last year's reckless nesting behavior on the part of the Cordilleran flycatchers , I put up a nesting le...

Don't knock the Postal Service. It can provide in-state same-day delivery of a raccoon. After our wildlife-transport training last Feb...

The Sun was as high in the sky as it could be, and we were in Salida for the last day of FIBArk , catching the Crazy River Dogs Contest and ...

The Denver Post article about the wolverine that wandered in from Wyoming has made its web site's "most popular" list. Bob In...

Via Boing Boing. And on a more serious note, what happens when a dog owner doesn't let the dog do what it was bred to do -- but with a h...

In January 2006 I blogged about the new requirement for all visitors to Colorado state wildlife areas to buy a Division of Wildlife "h...

• Amazing dog digestive story . • "Why didn't the kitty play nice?" Because it is, as Ernest Hemingway would say, " a big...

Rural life: the county road is gravel, we have to shoot our own criminals because the sheriff is 45 minutes away, and the well water is free...

As befits a coal-mining town, Price, Utah, has a statue in a park of a helmeted coal miner saying good-bye to his little son. But its downto...