I have been photographing high up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This portion of the Rockies has a lot of peaks over 10,000 feet and even some over 14,000. At these heights it is ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

Finding pika to photograph involves going as high as possible in the mountains. They need a cool to cold environment. As it is with all habitat specialists, the pika is facing some major challenges.