Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Is Marco the dog following a visual trail, with the additional visual cues of rocks lined up on the side, or is he following "a rippli...

Just a lion walking past a trail camera two years ago. •  The culinary side of mountain lion s (cougars) is not covered in this Colorado Par...

The 1892 Crystal "Mill" was actually a powerhouse. (Library of Congress)  If you live in Colorado, you know this image. As the man...

I was taking Marco to a favorite pond yesterday when I saw this large beetle marching down the dirt road we were on. Overall length was abou...

I was going to say "kinky" because p. 236 in my Sibley guide is Amazon parrots, but then I realized that I was using the "Wes...

Fendi Despres ( right ) and a prairie-restoration volunteers.  (Photo: Fendi Despres via 5280 ). 5280 Magazine describes how the 1,100-acre...

Click to embiggen. This graphic displays moisture changes in Colorado over the last 90 days. As you can see, the Eastern Slope and High Plai...

Last of the low penstemon. A now-gone rancher friend used to say, "All signs fail in times of drought." Maybe they fail in times ...

Photo: Colorado Sun  "Pastoral cultures are always violent," I read once in an anthropology book.  You know the scenario: two herd...

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...