Southern Rockies Nature Blog

M. and I were poking around in the Wet Mountains two days ago, at the site of a now-vanished picnic ground that I think dated from the 1920s...

Fires everywhere in southern Colorado this week. I myself was "toned out" of bed at 2:27 a.m. yesterday, soon to be loaded into a ...

Colorado used to be south of the equator — about 300 million years ago. Things were a little different then: "a low-lying area, periodi...

     • A new drought map. January-March 2022 precipitation hit some record lows. I am relieved to be living in one of the green areas on th...

It is an interactive map of all lands managed by the State Land Board. From a news release: Our public map provides data about our 2.8 milli...

When life give you lemons, squeeze the juice onto your trout. Caught in a traffic jam last month on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, angler...

OK, gear-heads, this is for you. I never made a "Things that Annoy Me" category for this blog, but if I did, it would include coat...

Another patient in the Raptor Center "ICU." The injured red-tailed hawk , the game warden said, was somewhere in the riparian cot...

Wolverine in Glacier Nat. Park (NPS) Fictional southern Colorado high schools may no longer be accused of using an almost non-existent anima...

 • Here is a short video about lynx in Colorado . ** • Is your toothache really Lyme disease ? • The history of outdoor life in the Nordics ...

Clickbait? That is nothing new. Watch Kirk Douglas as obnoxious, erratic, but talented reporter Chuck Tatum in the 1951 noir film Ace in th...

Steve Rinella (Photo: Natalie Ivis) People toss the word "brand" around a lot, but I did not know how big a "brand" Stev...

"Look 1," from Private Policy ( Vogue magazine)   The article on Vogue Runway's website begins, Every New Yorker spends a no...

 I am at my desk reading the morning news.  There is a swishing sound, but it does not really register on me. Then I go out into the hallway...

(Photo from Utah state government) An article in the Sopris Sun (Pitkin County) quotes a man who moved there from Alaska a few years back:  ...