Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
A demonstration to save Point Reyes National Seashore deer; park administration dishonesty officially confirmed
More than 40 peaceful demonstrators, mostly from West Marin, walked from Sacred Heart Church in Olema to Point Reyes National Seashore headquarters Sunday in a last-ditch effort to discourage the the park from killing its few remaining fallow and axis deer. Despite public opposition, the park two weeks ago announced eradication was about to resume.
Opposition [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The good, the bizarre, and the ugly
One of the luxuries of being retired is that I can do all the late-night reading I want, and I’m continually being amazed by what I read.
Remember the shortwave radiomen in those old movies about World War II: “Come in, Rangoon! Come in, Rangoon!”? When I was a kid, the family’s floor-standing radio had shortwave [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Alice in ‘Wilderness’
“People seeking food will see an opportunity to hunt, gather, or cultivate. People who are well fed, but seek spiritual sustenance in nature, will see a refuge. Wildlife biologists will see a laboratory, archeologists a dig, real estate developers a suburb, park managers a place of employment.” — Mark Dowie of Inverness.
(From The Fiction of [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres Part XXXII: The first raccoon kits of summer
To every creature there is a season. At the beginning of May, the blacktail doe that hangs around on this hill brought out both of this year’s fawns for the first time. Sunday night, it was Mrs. Raccoon’s turn to bring out her four kits.
My kitchen door has become a regular stop on Mrs. Raccoon’s [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres Part XXXI: The pink roses of Point Reyes Station
This is a story about Point Reyes Station’s ubiquitous pink roses and how I once happened to rescue a few wild ones.
One of the many bicyclists passing through town pedals past climbing roses in front of West Marin School.
When I came to town in 1975, Toby’s Feed Barn was located in the old Livery Stable [...]
