Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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In January, the Colorado Div. of Parks and Wildlife named much of the Arkansas River a Gold Medal stream , a designation given to the state...

Snow levels in central and northern Colorado are good (I can attest to that after last weekend's trip). Sierra Nevada and Cascade rang...

16-man tipi and woodpile (Photo: Jamie Marchbank) The sociologist of religion Peter Berger is known for his 1967 book The Sacred Canopy...

Now that you have the whole "murder of crows," "parliament of owls," etc. in your vocabulary — expressions probably neve...

While watching birds out the bedroom window yesterday I saw this fox go by. Obviously something has sheared off part of its tail — a pursu...

There is nothing to see in eastern Colorado. It's all flat and treeless.  Almost a month ago — January 18th — I took County Road 1...

Over in Frémont County, a/k/a " Prison Valley " (photo essay), people must be extra-worried about other people walking down the ro...

A wild grass from Mesoamerica called teosinte is accepted as the ancestor of maize/corn, but it does not look much like varieties of corn w...

Sage Grouse (Wiki Commons) Sally Jewell, shiny new Secretary of the Interior , comes to northwest Colorado to discuss the threats to sag...

¶ In Switzerland, says BLDGBLOG , winter is sculpted " by one wizard-like figure who is really just a stoned twenty-something in a wool...

Bears at Camera Trap Spring Since the October 2012 forest fire behind our house, I have been tracking changes in the land, particularly...

¶ That there is, in fact, an actual place called Pie Town, New Mexico, continues to fascinate food writers. Going to Pie Town is compared t...

News you can use: A history of bourbon and rye whiskeys. The reviewer writes, I must admit that I too once looked down from the highlan...

And now the news that matters: water. Some graphics whiz at the Natural Resources Conservation Service has changed the style of the map. ...