Southern Rockies Nature Blog

So I sold a pair of World War 2-vintage snowshoes on eBay and used the money to buy hemp oil ( CBD ) for my dog. A Colorado moment, circ...

Women carrying cassava root (?) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some time ago, I blogged a fascinating tale of South American e...

Your ship sinks, your airplane crashes, you are sliding on your back down an icy slope into a crevasse — will you be the survivor? I had r...

How to lay sandbags: the right way, the wrong way, and the Army Corps of Engineers way. The future seems to have two probable paths. 1...

Abert's squirrel in ponderosa pine. Everyone thinks of squirrels as caching nuts (thus inadvertently planting trees), but not the Ab...

Discussion of drought trends by region here. Snotel automated sites around the West Colorado snowpack by river basin.

What he or she saw: lions and prey at Chauvet Sometime, say 26,000 years ago or more, a kid and a canid (wolf? dog? wolf-dog?) went expl...

Pine beetle-killed lodgepole pine in Colorado (University of Colorado). I spent last weekend camping with friends on the White River Nat...

Float like a snowshoe, glide like a ski At 145 cm, Altai's Hok backcountry ski is about the same length as my old Army -urplus tra...

Fawn on furs (Wet Mountain Wildlife). M. and I swung through Pueblo last week on a typical supply run and picked up some fur coats — one...

Owl tangled in a barbed wire fence. Not today's owl, but similar. (Colorado Parks and Wildlife) . . You drive south from Westclif...

Bald eagles at Pueblo Reservoir (Ron Drummond/CPW) In our "wildlife taxi" volunteer gig for Colorado Parks & Wildlife, M. ...

Mule deer does in recently burned area — good habitat for them! M. and I own a cabin in the Wet Mountains, near our home, which functi...

Christo and his late wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude, in 2009 with a sketch of how "Over the River" would look (Keystone/...

A new meme has been going around news media lately, the "liberal prepper." The signs of change are surely in the air. Groups tha...