Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Sometimes jaguars eat deer, sometimes deer eat Jaguars. Last night was warm, and we slept with the bedroom windows slightly open. So M.,...

Pasque flower (Wikipedia). • Pasque flowers and spring beauty ( Claytonia ) finally in bloom. • Flocks of high country-bound motorcy...

The "Edwardian lynx" in the Bristol Museum This is not a southern Rockies post, just so you will know. We have lynx (re-introd...

Image from infohemp.org. In far southeastern Colorado, a farmer plans t he first legal hemp crop since the World War II era. "I b...

River running about 200 cfs The guide scrambles back into his seat after dragging the raft through a riffle. Sport #1 is fishing. Sport ...

In Japan, "forest therapy" is a formal process, complete with leaders . "To help us along, Kunio—a volunteer ranger—had us st...

It's a searchable o nline fishing atlas for Colorado. Pretty cool.

Here's a map of record lows during April 2013 . M. keeps telling me that more trees should be leafed out by now at low altitudes, such a...

Recent debates over gun-ownership have seen the pro-gun rights side reacting to calls for restriction with the counter-argument that what we...

• "Pimp My Walk" — an article on the glory days of walking canes , with comparison to today's hiking apparatus: "I’ve n...

(Illustration from National Geographic) While I was away in South Carolina, M. reported that she came outside on the 13th to find a bird...

Ludlow Massacre site the day after (Wikipedia). People toss the phrase "class warfare" around a lot these days — and with re...

Yesterday: A wild tom turkey struts his stuff near Beulah, Colorado. Snow, snow, glorious snow. And the best part is that the snow ...

Mountain plover being banded. (Colorado Parks & Wildlife) Every Colorado town that wants to bring in tourists has a festival. Some h...

The author of My Beloved Brontosaurus talks about the changing view of dinosaurs, which leaves people wondering what they were really like....