Southern Rockies Nature Blog

When he could still run — Fisher, spring 2017. Once there was a Chesapeake Bay retriever named Fisher, whom we took in as a 2-year-old ...

I never got a chance to learn animal tracking from some near-mythical Apache who could track a mouse across slickrock. But a couple of weeks...

    A Pueblo telephone operator made this sketch after she was able to return to work. If you have spent any time in southern Colorado, you...

Young black bear boar runs for freedom (National Park Service) At six a.m. last Thursday (the 20th) this young male black bear and his ...

1925 Ford Model T touring car (Wikipedia). A century ago, our national forests had a problem. Behind the wheels of their Ford Model T's ...

  I started donating at the "get a logo ball cap" level. In 2018 I went with some other Backcountry Hunters & Anglers volunte...

 . . . then these tom turkeys would be dead, because they are engaged in a hostile stare-down with their own reflections. Angry gobbling was...

Born in southern Colorado, I spent much of my childhood in South Dakota, living where the Black Hills met the prairie. When it came to trees...

Earlier Posts: (1) Barry Lopez (2) Pentti Linkola  I am fudging this one just a little. The anthropologist Richard Nelson (b. 1941) actua...

Grace Staberg, left, of Summit County, skins uphill with Nikki LaRochelle on Copper Mountain, Tuesday morning, April 27, 2021, near Frisco...

 I know what they are, but where did they come from?  First, an orange cat. He looks a lot like Charlie, a neighbor's cat who frequently...

Of the three writers I am discussing ( Barry Lopez was the first ), the deep ecologist Penti Linkola (1932–2020) is the least cuddly. In fac...

Juniper titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi) Cornell Univ. The Juniper Titmouse is sort of the ultimate Little Gray Bird (LGB), although I suppos...

This is the first of three linked entries. First, Barry Lopez , 1945–2020. Second, Pentti Linkola . Third, Richard Nelson. One day in the ea...

Tomahawk SWA offers fishing access to the South Platte River in South Park. Last year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife identified a problem with...