Southern Rockies Nature Blog

New Mexico lawmakers move to define and defend the state's chile peppers . “What we’ve got is people coming in and selling chile and s...

Science discovers . . . that cats bond more with women . While cats have plenty of male admirers, and vice versa, this study and others re...

Hal Walter ponders the ebb and flow of population in his part of the Wet Mountains . Homesteaders' cabins to trophy homes, horses to c...

• Another site that finds abandoned structures to be sort of nonhuman . • The Web site English Russia often features abandoned structures...

Magnetic north keeps changing . But you can compute the declination (difference between magnetic and true north) for any location by using t...

Photo: Rapid City Journal A grass fire on a ridge in Rapid City, South Dakota, swirled smoke around these icons of my childhood— lifesize...

After taking a refresher class last week, I went today down to the Nearby Town Volunteer Fire Department shortly after seven this morning to...

The abandoned Arkansas River Conduit cuts through land south of Pueblo Reservoir. (Photo: Chas S. Clifton) Last December I mentioned h...

Probably not news to a lot of my readers, but magnetic-resonance imaging technology shows that fructose affects brain areas that inhibit ap...

• In Stockholm, Maine (not the other Stockholm), a resurgence in cross-country skiing . Laurie Spooner, the school's principal, said th...

Here is the West's mountain snowpack map as of February 1, 2011, meaning that the last week's snows do not appear. The Agriculture ...

• A Web guide to the cult of George Leonard Herter, expert on hunting, fishing, cooking, surviving nuclear war, and living with a bitch . (T...

From the Car Lust blog : I learned to drive in snow in the car I learned to drive in, a 1967 LeMans with a V-8 and automatic. I don't...

GWherever people post complaints on the Web about AmeriGas's poor propane service, "Fran" is not far behind. Fran wants yo...

News release from the Colorado Division of Wildlife: LAMAR, Colo. - The Ninth Annual High Plains Snow Goose Festival will again celebrat...