Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Robert Dear's stationary RV in South Park (Colorado Springs Gazette) It was around 1970 or a little earlier that someone subdivided ...

Coyote and badger at Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado. Kimberly Fraser, USFWS A US Fish and Wildlife Service...

Jeff Outhier, who works for the US Forest Service in Westcliffe, Colo., made this short video from the interior of the Junkins Fire , w...

Twenty states and the District of Columbia permit medical marijuana .  A bunch more are moving to liberalize their laws on recreational use ...

This is "good" smoke, coming from a fire-line burnout on the Junkins Fire three days ago. I am still catching up after the ev...

Other linkage: ¶ Alaska writer Craig Medred proposes some cures for "bus madness," in other words, the pilgrims and wannabes ...

¶ Without bats, no tequila? There is some motivation for conservation ! Aside from consuming loads of crop-destroying insects, bats are pl...

A Florence school band marches past the real Rialto theatre in a parade scene from "Our Souls at Night." Evidently the fictiona...

A customer (not me) wonders why the cafe is closed when its posted hours say otherwise. I picked up a "travel mug" ( or "...

Raccoon #1 finally leaves the carrier. The wind was blowing 40 mph, it looked like the Aryan Brotherhood was setting up a campsite on t...

 (Click for full-screen view) First, via writer Peter Grant's blog, here is the Southwestern monsoon (chiefly in the Phoenix area),...

¶ " Landslides in the United States cause approximately $3.5 billion (year 2001 dollars) in damage, and kill between 25 and 50 people...

An article from the Durango Herald on a film about bowhunter and nature writer David Petersen, On the Wild Edge: Hunting for a Natural Li...

In the 1959 Russian movie Ballad of a Soldier , a young war hero tries to go home on leave only to be distracted by multiple plot complic...

Photo credit Elizabeth Wolber, U. of North Carolina This has been a yuge rodent year, deer mice ( Peromyscus spp.) in particular. Some...