Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Look over in my "Southwesterners" blogroll and you will see Birds and Nature , the innocuous-sounding photography blog of Cañon Ci...

Some holiday photos from southern Colorado and New Mexico In Magdalena, New Mexico, Santa drives a military surplus Dodge M37 truck. Th...

Taken several years ago with tribal permission, this Taos News photo shows the dancers led by former pueblo governor Ruben Romero You...

I have posted occasionally here about the back-and-forth over whether or not Homo sapiens sapiens (that would be you, reader, probably) inte...

If you have been following the news, you know that Britain is experiencing a severe winter : lots of snow and temperatures dipping close to ...

It has been years since we have seen an "irruption" of red crossbills down here in the foothills, but here is a video from the Co...

After two different surgeons made it the "sex-change capital of the world" for decades, that surgical practice has relocated to (s...

As predicted in October , that little girl is a problem child, weather-wise. Coyote Gulch , the Colorado water blog, rounds up the pitiful S...

I did not know that national parks were ever un-made, but it happened in Oklahoma in 1976, when the Platt National Park was demoted for lack...

From a listserv on literature and nature to which I subscribe comes this observation: If such a thing [as "Footnote of the Year"...

Darcey at Metis Online looks past Sarah Palin-as-politician to see a deeper divide than Republicans and Democrats. I am reminded of Edwar...

I was driving to Pueblo yesterday and passed a small group of pronghorn antelope at the edge of the prairie. Again I thought, antelope get...

This AP story indicates that in Israel, decided what to do after a forest fire--whether to "let nature take its course" or replant...

At Free Range Kids , a link to a study claiming not only that too much childhood cleanliness leads to allergies, but it predisposes childre...

 Years ago I picked up from Steve Bodio the phrase "an armed walk," meaning a stroll cross-country when you are ostensibly huntin...