Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Suillus americanus (Wikimedia Commons). July rains brought a brief flush of Slippery Jack mushrooms ( Suillus americanus ) near the hous...

Osa Johnson checks her rifle on safari. At the Frontier Partisans blog, Jim Cornelius suggests that the 1900–1930 period represented th...

Old cabins in the rain with broad-tailed hummingbird On the 4th of July, walking in the Sangres, I found two boletes near the trail — an...

I saw this "5-Day Survival Backpack" on sale in the grocery store in Westcliffe, and my first thought was that someone would buy...

If you live in Wyoming, the Black Hills, Colorado, or western Kansas and Nebraska, the most interesting weather forecast happens online, a...

Enjoy it while it's this way. I have never fished John Martin, but I have tried it for waterfowling with mixed success. When it is h...

Click to embiggen Now you know why Nikola Tesla built a laboratory in Colorado Springs in 1899 , right in the central red patch. This...

Ethiopian wolves hunt better with monkeys nearby — and then it is only an evolutionary eye-blink to women carrying Yorkshire terriers in th...

Led by a white Forest Service pickup, the "auto tour" forms up. What I think of when I hear "auto tour." There i...

John Gale from Backcountry Hunters and Anglers speaks to a rally at the Colorado State Capitol in February 2015 (Durango Herald). There...

Opponents of zee artiste Christo's plan to cover miles of the Arkansas River with fabric have one more court date, and then they have ru...

• Illegal campsites are usually trashy. Yes, that's a stereotype, but stereotypes have to come from somewher e. And when you have tras...

Click to embiggen. I have not been diligent with the rain gauge, but according to the Wet Mountain Weather Facebook page, as of May 5t...

How to write a clickbait title: " Five Colorado Ghost Towns You Probably Never Knew Existed ." Except that one of them is St. El...

I went to check the scout camera nearest to the house on April 25th, and as I approached, I saw it lying on the ground. Apparently a brief s...