Southern Rockies Nature Blog

It's a good year for wild sunflowers. Links. Do I have links. They sprout like sunflowers on the prairie. • How to improve your ou...

So out of loyalty to this fine breed, I give you this story of a long-lost elderly dog who survived: "The last [the dog's owners...

Lovely complexity of nature. M. and I were in Pueblo today, and someone tipped off one of the game wardens, who called me to say that s...

Kids and and early-model Farmall Cub tractor. Can't beat that. Florence, Colorado, has joined the trend towards "wet" para...

From The Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis (1875–1938), first published in 1929: When anyone fell sick, the first medicine was whisk...

Bear spray canisters and holsters (Udap brand). A spate of incidents in Alaska (and the Northern Rockies ) have some people asking, ...

This lanky young black bear was out ambling around on Sunday the 18th, but I just changed out the SD card in that camera today and found i...

I see this every so often, but it still impresses me: a little Opuntia -genus cactus growing out of a crack in a big sandstone boulder. F...

Last weekend at Sylvan Lake State Park , the solar lantern just was not bright enough for both M's and my reading, so I fired up the s...

When I was a college student working a summer construction job in Taos, New Mexico, there was an old man next door, Eloy M., who people in...

Hoedad (Forestry Suppliers). • " And it might seem harmless to push especially active breeds beyond what their owners do themselves...

Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) wants to move the Bureau of Land Management national headquarters out of Washington, D.C., to somewhere in...

"I'm not dead yet!" (Cornell University). It snowed here two nights ago. It snowed a lot. We had at least eighteen inches ...

Click to embiggen. I look at the façade above the front door of the defunct Ponderosa Restaurant in Magdalena, New Mexico, and I wonder ...

Steppe bison were the ones painted at Altamira Cave in Spain (Wikipedia). • Research suggests that all North American bison (buffalo) ar...