Southern Rockies Nature Blog

The National Weather Service office in Pueblo posted these radar images on Facebook today. See the oval on the left? That is not rain, it...

When I was young and the internet still only dial-up, I had an idea for a Future Farmers of America chapter fundraiser. A chapter in, say, ...

In 2008, I described two different narratives about the area south of Florence, Colorado, in the pre-Civil War era of trappers, traders, and...

Mountain chickadeee ( Poecile gambeli ). Cornell University A recent Audobon Society article spoke to possible hybridization between mounta...

I'm working through a backlog of news-related potential blog posts. Here's a short video about state wildlife biologists working wit...

These mule deer were not killed because someone was hungry, but for money. (Colorado Parks & Wildlife) I was told once that a certain st...

The last commercial structure on Main Street, Hartman, Colorado. Some years back my friend Galen and I went to a "hunters' breakfas...

Fred Borsch holds Tootsie during Deadwood's 1950 "Days of '76" Parade (South Dakota Public Broadcasting).   My boyhood in ...

I stopped at the Big R store in Pueblo last week — my first visit in some time — and wow, that chicken thing. Big R seems to cater mainly to...

This mountain lion was captured and tagged in Boulder in October 2021. Relocated to the mountains, it was killed in December 2022 after atta...

A lion who did not understand the concept of "focal length" on an inexpensive trail cam. The Vail Daily reminds ski-country resid...

Buffalo at the Navajo-owe Wolf Springs Ranch. (Photo: Ranch Marketing Assn.) L ook at the banner photo on this blog, and you will see at low...

Sample OnX map. An article on "corner-cutting," public access, and whether landowners own airpace over property corners makes it t...

1987 was the worst year of my life. A dream job of working on an outdoor magazine was falling apart (with the publication itself), leaving M...

W hen Henryk Sienkiewicz crossed the Great Plains on his way to California and adventure in 1876 , I assume his train took the "Golden ...