Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Don't expect a cell phone signal here. Is your smartphone as accurate as a dedicated GPS unit? Some researchers at Skidmo re College...

¶ Where to eat in San Luis now that Emma's Hacienda is closed . And there is a new-ish coffee shop and bakery, Rosa Mystica , that I kee...

After reading a lot of mystery novels by Peter Bowen and Keith McCafferty (Montana) plus Craig Johnson and C. J. Box ( Wyoming), I have a...

Last month, I speculated what might happen if hostile government agencies cross-referenced state medical marijuana cardholders with the fede...

When you put too many horses on your little acreage, and they eat the grass down to the dirt, at least it is easy to dig hand line around t...

¶ (Colorado's bighorn sheep population (never large) has rebounded since the 1990s, researchers say. (The article focuses on northern...

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 "...