Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Moormans River, near Free Union, Virginia M. and I rolled in Sunday the 30th after a long train trip to Virginia to see (most) of her ...

It's time for Southern Rockies Nature Blog's seasonal gift guide. • Booze and smoked meats are always good • I like books. May...

It's better in the winter — this is early December I was over in Fremont County , south of Cañon City , in an area where I used to...

Lip balm distributed by Colorado Parks & Willife. A friend was visiting Denver from northern England earlier this month. I urged her...

 A good article from Appalachian Magazine : "Though less than forty years have passed, I am often astonished to see just how dras...

I received a news release a few days ago about a wolf that had escaped from a "sanctuary" near Divide, Colorado , in the mountains...

"When I am bigger, I will eat you." Mountain lion (cougar) kitten reclines on a donated fur coat at Wet Mountain Wildlife rehab...

Via Patrick Burns' Terrierman blog: Biologist Heather Reich of the the Nevada Department of Wildlife is not afraid of grizzly bears i...

"Wolfy" aspen tree, Wet Mountains, Colorado A "wolf tree" has nothing to do with Canis lupus . It is a tree that has...

A Canadian Ranger shoots his Lee-Enfield rifle in .303 British. I like shooting old wooden-stocked bolt-action military rifles, so I wa...

A couple of weeks ago, this was me (less the abnormally straight backpack) calculating whether there was sufficient time to eat supper on...

Ruins of coke ovens at Cokedale. Coke is made by heating soft coal in an airless atmosphere, so it is to coal as charcoal is to wood, sor...

Along US 20 in the Nebraska Sandhills "Pastoralists often have the same distinct qualities of personality regardless of the regio...

Leaving Pierre for Fort Pierre. You know it is pronounced "Peer," right? When I re-crossed the wide Missouri at Pierre, South ...

Harvested cornfield and corn bins, North Dakota "As centuries, then millennia passed, the areas open for retreat [back to a hunter-...