Southern Rockies Nature Blog

“To me, it is cruel to keep an animal like this in a cage,” [Cec Sanders] said. “No guarantees on what happens to them. But at le...

The model on the left needs a jacket that fits her, don't you think? Outdoor gear made from women's bodies-- still too hard to fi...

Dog armor with "HawkShield." At first I thought this was one of those Internet spoofs, like Jihawg ammunition (contains pork...

This has not been getting much coverage outside of southern Colorado, but the Navajo Nation has purchased two large ranches in Huerfano and ...

So 2017 was a wet year overall here in southern Colorado but 2018 is starting to look . . . different.  Veteran journalist Allen Best, wr...

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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...