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2,000+ Year Old Trees and Such, Oh My!
Some of earth’s largest trees are here in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Sequoia, the nation’s second national park, was established in 1890. The largest of the large trees in these two parks...
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St. Thomas People
“It don’t make any sense you put your hand on your head and bawl; what you going to bawl for? Tell me….” -Seventy-nine-year-old Hazel McLean’s response to the destruction of her home in White Horses...
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Stupid NASA, Earth and Nature
credit: NASA A friend sent me NASA’s earth art book and immediately, I started scribbling down place names for no other reasons than these: They are arresting names; and I wonder what goes on there....
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Jasper Ridge!
After nearly a year, I finally got onto a docent-led hike at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Stanford has several studies going on at Jasper...
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Big Basin! Whuu-huuu!!!!
I finally made it to Big Basin up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The visitor center, also known as Sempervirens Room, is in Boulder Creek, California. To get down to the seaside on foot, you start your...
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The River Road, Part One
The Morant River in the vicinity of Serge Island, Jamaica. The Blue Mountains are in the background (credit: Claude Fletcher, amataiclaudius) Morant River (maybe) I’ve been around rivers all my life....
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The River Road, Part Two
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout, Yellowstone River (photo credit: FishEyeGuy) Yellowstone River I learned this interesting fact as I started doing research for my trip to Yellowstone National Park: The...
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Summer Along the Coast Road
Old tool shed (Cascade Ranch, Pescadero) Summer’s winding down here in Northern California. Soon we will be in the rainy season. Six months of dry weather followed by six months of potential wetness....
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Where is the Leadership? Watching Track and Field
I am a citizen of this earth recognized by law as a subject a national of this soil. I belong to the same state commonwealth nation world as do you. I remember when Ma said to Tommy, “I don’t want no...
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