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Bear pounces on sleeping campers in Colorado RV park

Okay, here's a reminder of why most of the readers of this newsletter prefer sleeping in an RV over sleeping in a tent. Thankfully,...

Seeing more wildlife lately? There’s a reason for that…

From the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department of Natural Resources Are people seeing more wildlife moving into neighborhoods and parks vacated by people during Colorado’s...

Sharing the beauty: A 600,000-photograph cross-country journey

By RonnieSue Ambrosino It's a very difficult time for all of us. Many people are focused on trying to navigate through this world that was...

Video: Bull elk bounces Colorado visitor

By Russ and Tiña De Maris When the elk rut is on, it pays to stay out of the way. That's the lesson from Estes...

Cougar killed on California interstate had a stalker

By Russ and Tiña De Maris Last week we brought up the story of the sad demise of P-61, the rather ingloriously named male cougar...

The RoVing Naturalist: Climate change and succession

By Dennis Prichard I attended a meeting of forest ecologists some 20 years ago wherein the scientists presented speeches on what might happen in the...

The RoVing Naturalist: Snakes – What are they good for?

By Dennis Prichard I hear this all the time: “What good are ____?” Snakes, in this example. My reply is that you are asking the...

Snakes can be our “friends”

The RoVing Naturalist By Dennis Prichard SNAKES! Our worst fear? Not necessarily. Snakes rank right up there at the top of the list for people’s biggest fear...

All about banding hummingbirds – Fascinating!

The RoVing Naturalist By Dennis Prichard No doubt you have heard of bird banding – that activity biologists do to determine where birds go, how fast...

The RoVing Naturalist: The life and death of a sentinel

By Dennis Prichard The chainsaw smoked, sputtered and jerked to a halt. The fallen log reclining across the nature trail might have been dead but...

The RoVing Naturalist: Nest competitors: Two species of birds

By Dennis Prichard I hadn't been on the trail ten minutes when a bird shot past my face in a blur. In an instant my...

Cedars or junipers? What’s in a name?

The RoVing Naturalist By Dennis Prichard How some plants get their common names, I’ll never know. For example, all the days I was growing up in...