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Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Southern Rockies Nature Blog

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Nature, culture, dogs, environmental news, and writing with a Southern Rockies perspective.

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  • Of Body-dumping, Euphemism, and the Forest Service

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 15:29 in weirdness

    The always-alert reporter who covers this area for the Pueblo Chieftain was the first to report the discovery of a corpse not far from where I live.M.  and I had been hiking and locating a geocache right at that spot just two days after the body...

  • Life without Plastic

    Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 in garbage, recyling

    Life without Plastic is a blog about finding alternatives to ubiquitous plastics, particularly in packaging.More and more, I find store cashiers receptive to my line of "No bag, please." Many admit that they have too many plastic bags in their house ...

  • A Sign of Austerity

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 21:30 in travel, winter

    -Due to a lack of money, the Colorado Dept. of Transportation has stopped plowing the road from here to Pueblo at night.M. shudders every time that she sees the sign, remembering many late-night drives home after teaching a night class at the univers...

  • Big Fire Years in the Sangre de Cristos

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 18:20 in fire, forestry, sangre de cristo range

    Going through an old notebook, I discovered notes from a talk given ten years ago by Catherine Alington, at that time a PhD student in landscape ecology at Colorado State University-Fort Collins.She researched fire cycles on both sides of the norther...

  • Blog Stew with Fighting Mice

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 22:20 in climate change, wildlife, birds

    • Steve Bodio writes on on "Darwin's Other Birds," namely pigeons, for which the Cornell Ornithology Lab has a special program for city kids, Project Pigeon Watch.• I don't hear this from Prowers County, Colorado, but wind-turbine noise is ...

  • Blogging Hermits

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 20:51 in blogging

    What is it with blogging hermits—or quasi-hermits?Would Henry David Thoreau have had a blog? I am sure of it. Anyone who would edit his autobiography so that two years of experience fit neatly into one literary year has demonstrated the capability ...

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4 stars Albion Moonlight

Green without being politically correct, Southern Rockies Nature Blog is firmly rooted in its bioregion.

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