Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Gray Wolf (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Coloradans are voting right now through Tuesday on a ballot measure to reintroduce gray wolv...

Photo credit: National Park Service Some people love trekking (hiking) poles. The authors of the guidebook Don't Waste Your Time in the...

  A human following a giant ground sloth stepped in the big beast's tracks. While someone followed the giant sloth in what is now New Me...

Some of the same Scouts, on a five-night trip the next summer. The other kid's initials were R. A., so I will call him that, in case he ...

  I hung this scout camera on May 9th at a little seep that I call "Camera Trap Spring." (You won't find that name on Google E...

Chest-carry binocular case by Further Faster Design with concealed rear pocket. (The antler is just to prop it up.)  From Denver television ...

Nick Vinciguerra collecting dead Violet-green swallows in Velarde, NM. (American Birding Assn.) T he unusually strong storm that swept throu...

Remains of a social-media influencer eaten by wolves (I wish). I used to hang out a lot with hunting and fishing writers — even publishe...

Fisher, his Kong toy, and his "wire mother" — we call it "metal mommy." Harry Harlow was an American psychologist of...

Front page photo from the Wet Mountain Tribune , July 16, 2020. I was talking with a game warden from one of the mountain counties t...

I missed out on the original 1960s Mountain Gazette — too young, but I subscribed during the M. John Fayee era (the 2000s) and still have m...

I believe these people want to sell you some Big Yeti Stout. First, the disclaimer. I am not in any way a "Bigfoot hunter." A ...

A yummy rat makes travel time go by more quickly.  Our neighbor wildlife rehabbers like to put stuffed toys with small mammals for compan...

Orphan mule deer fawn arrives at the rehabilitation center. This is the time of year when fawns are dropping and wildlife agencies are ...

The Grand County wolf-like animal. Photo: Janice Freeman via Colorado Parks and Wildife. Colorado Parks and Wildlife field officers are ...