Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Don't use a 200mm lens to take photos of birds in the sky. But it was what I had when these sandhill cranes were overhead. As always, ...

 . . . of the city, in this case Baltimore, and would rather be at home, where winter has arrived and the county road-and-bridge department ...

Archaeologists find a series of Archaic mountain villages in Wyoming, and the dates lead them to wonder if Numic-speaking people (ancestor...

¶ You could use this fancy online tool at the Cornell ornithology lab to find the best food for your favorite winter birds . Or you could ju...

Smith & Wesson Breach boots In 2007 I wrote an unexpectedly popular post about the Russian military moving away from the old two-siz...

A 1935 Packard that functioned as a "school bus" for ranchers' and orchardists' kids in Keremeos, BC. From left: George ...

And it is summarized in this New York Times article , " Wolf to Dog: Scientists Agree on How, but Not Where ." Scientists have l...

Kenton, Oklahoma , is somewhere on my list of Towns to Disappear To." It is possible, though, that Kenton might disappear first. You ...

¶ In Palisade, Colo., there is an anti-tamarisk militia. ¶ The northern Colorado secession movement did not do too well at the ballot box....

Colorado Springs Gazette columnist Bill Radford notices the tumbleweed hordes of 2013.  Oh yeah. I am not one of those people who goes aro...

¶ Some wilderness survival stories leave you with more questions than answers . Too bad about the dog. ¶ "Why I Gave Up Living in the...

As I write, it is after eight o'clock on Halloween, and not one trick-or-treater has come up our driveway (usually by car, I should add)...

¶ Trapped by quicksand: A hunter tells Denver Post columnist Scott Willoughby how he nearly died along the South Platte River. ¶ The Burea...

Does your dog go into the woods during hunting season? Does he dart off the trail, refuse to come to the whistle, and then you find him gulp...

Some web-surfing in September led me to the Victorinox Swiss Army Knife website, and I discovered that for $5 they would look and and...