Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Reconstruction of a man checking the roof on his house framed with mammoth bones. (The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, S.D.) Recent Web-su...

Goodnight's barn — the oldest standing structure in Pueblo? "Charles Goodnight c. 1880" (late 40s) by University of Okl...

When I posted those snowpack numbers, I knew that for the Arkansas River drainage, where I live, the better-than-average figure represented ...

Lots more information at the National Weather and Climate Center .

Bear enjoying late-season tomatoes. More links that I need to clear . . .  • " The Hermit: New Mexico's First Mountaineer...

Chef Jess Noy. See squirrel item. I too often save a link to blog about it but them am too busy to do so. So here they are! All free! ...

Maybe not. I am better at thinking about the migration paths of elk than the migration paths of galaxies. But it is a stunning video....

"Local" decor in the new Trader Joe's grocery store in Colorado Springs. Via the Bigfoot Lunch Club blog, Animal Planet...

The Fiddlin' Foresters Am I opening presents early, when Smokeymas is still a week away? Not really, I found this CD, "In the L...

Not my stove (via Preservation Archaeology) Last night I was roasting some poblano chile peppers on the gas stove because I came across ...

Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, I had fantasies of being an outdoor/nature writer. I published articles, had a newspaper column for a coup...

I posted in October about Louie the pizza shop bear and his little buddies. M. and I have been helping out a little — some big bags of puppy...

Local search-and-rescue groups on Facebook are all cross-posting this Denver Post article: " Ignorance and Early-Season Avalanche Dang...

Helen Macdonald's latest New York Times column is on mushroom hunting, in which she observes, Hunting for mushrooms can feel surpri...

Other than some rain in October, it has been a dry few weeks here in the southern Colorado foothills. Dry — and sometimes windy enough — to ...