Southern Rockies Nature Blog

A year ago I speculated what would happen if the authorities went after gun buyers who marked "No" to the question, " Are you...

Death looks so clean on Everest. (Phurban Sherpa/New York Times) My high- altitude mountaineering is limited to peaks in the Rockies an...

Click to embiggen It's snowing this solstice morning here at Owl House, but judging from the radar, we are not going to get more th...

M. has been fuming at the grocery store. Avocados, $2 apiece. It seems like a lot — and I know that many are just thrown away or, sometimes,...

Last August I did a head-to-head photography comparison between a less-than-new Pentax pocket camera and a less-than-new iPhone. The cam...

Cast-off exoskeletons of the pleasing fungus beetle pupae (Gibbifer californicus), Imagine them hanging straight down — I turned them up ...

Some mold was growing in the bottom of the thistle-seed feeder, so it was time for a thorough cleaning. A report from the Project Feed...

In the summer of 1987, having newly joined the Outdoor Writers Association of America , I drove with M. up to their annual conference, which...

I developed a foot problem this summer, and it has me thinking more about gait than at anytime since my brief foray into track-and-field as...

A friend was driving into the county a couple of months ago on a certain road, and I warned him to s-l-o-w  d-o-w-n about about mile marker ...

It had to happen. I opened the 2017  Hunting Guide from Colorado Parks and & Wildlife, and there was a long sidebar titled "Non...

Just watching the seasons change and the forests change. Burned in 2012, reseeded with grasses  2013; now the oak brush is taking over. ...

1920s rain dance, probably at the Prairie Band Potawatomi agency in Kanas (WIkipedia). Colorado ski areas and water managers keep employ...

Crappy phone photo from across a pasture. It has been raining, and when it's not raining, drizzling. Matt Sellers, Beulah's own ...

I was driving up the canyon into the Wet Mountain Valley, flinching every time that a Painted Lady butterfly hit the windshield. They ar...