Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) on the road in The Straight Story . When you see someone grocery shopping on a riding mower, it usually ...

The wildlife rehabilitation center where I help out sometimes as a taxi driver for orphaned critters has had a quiet year so far — a few mul...

Danger! These are unlicensed matches! The second chilly day row, and again I built a fire in the wood-burner, striking a match on the flagst...

Some of these designs work and others do not Here in the southern Rockies, our hummingbirds have almost gone.  I saw one female broad-tailed...

Ahead, the sawyer searches for the lost trail while others clear saplings and logs. I spent Saturday with a volunteer trail crew rebuilding ...

The Saturday farmers market in Taos, New Mexico, is a rarity: sellers of food outnumber the sellers of homemade soap, crocheted potholders, ...

Fly-fishing in Colorado (Colorado Parks & Wildife photo) I am writing this from northern New Mexico, where there are some trout streams ...

The last bolete of August? Where is the Jägermeister to summon the hunting horns to blow the "last call"? We are having what south...

Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service   The elk triggered a scout camera at Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. But someone else...

Annual Colorado state parks pass on a windshield. These passes cannot be switched between vehicles.   The Denver Post had the story last Ju...

Next time, please face the camera Beside the photo from the 18th, I had been seeing other signs of a hungy bear in the neighborhood: another...

Yesterday at the grocery store in Pueblo, the conversation was about tarantulas — one of the employees explaining how he tries to usher the ...

Put your garbage out the night before pickup, and a bear will find it. Some years back, a Colorado Division of Wildlife (as it was then call...

 We remain "abnormally dry," despite all the rain. Dry soils, low reservoirs.

A quick shot from the Junkins Burn of 2016 in Colorado's Wet Mountains  — looking roughly west, so the haze is a cold front (relatively ...