Actually, this is a demonstration of the power of letter-writing to authority. Have a local issue under the jurisdiction of city or county authorities, but that involves a resource considered important regionally? Are the local authorities not doing the right...
Posted on January 11, 2007 11:05 AM • 0 Comments
An old partner in crime from my days in Portland has surfaced in the news. The story is about a tree. It's a tree I visited a time or two while living in Stumptown. It's a tree you can't miss...
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Posted on January 4, 2007 4:57 PM • 10 Comments
[Note: eye candy below the fold, at the bottom of the post.] A few days ago some hunters in the San Isabel National Forest (center of the state in the mountains west of Colorado Springs) claim to have spied a...
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Posted on September 29, 2006 10:07 AM • 2 Comments
Of course when you show irreverence for a hyper-popular icon, especially one recently passed, you're going to hear about it, and I did in the comments. That's ok, I'm a big boy and can take the heat. But it is...
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Posted on September 19, 2006 11:04 PM • 5 Comments
This was taken just below the summit of Black Giant (13,380 ft) in Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP (or was it in the John Muir Wilderness? I forget...). Looking north toward Muir Pass (if you have really good eyes you can pick...
Posted on September 7, 2006 2:41 AM • 3 Comments
"Friends said Irwin died doing what he loved." Oh, you mean harassing wildlife? I can't help but think there is a very fine line between Steve Irwin's antics and those of the widely ridiculed Timothy Treadwell, a.k.a. Grizzly Man. Difference...
Posted on September 4, 2006 6:08 PM • 27 Comments
After strongly pushing all larger wild mammals out of cities and suburbs over the past century, some mammals are starting to come back. Deer are the obvious visitors, but coyotes, fox, elk, bears (just to name the animals I've personally...
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Posted on August 29, 2006 12:00 PM • 6 Comments