Tag Archives: Mountain Home State Forest

Weekend Postcard from Mountain Home State Forest

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Timberati

I was the Assistant Forest Manager at Mountain Home State Forest in the early 1980′s. Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest is a 4,800 acre tract of forest land in Tulare County managed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire … Continue reading →

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Green, Inc.

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Timberati

Fear motivates. Fear was the reason I got into forestry. When I was in college (I grew up in the 1960s and graduated high school in 1969), Martin Litton’s iconinc picture of a boy looking out over a large clearcut … Continue reading →

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Green Giant Politics

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Timberati

My wife and I are members of the Sierra Club. She, because she supported their agenda. Me, because I want to know what the arguments are going to be about. The other day, we found a mailer from the Sierra … Continue reading →

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Life imitates art

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Timberati

This BBC story, Survey turns hill into a mountain, about Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia in Wales sounds like the movie that starred Hugh Grant, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. Maggie Mountain in … Continue reading →

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The Chance of a Lifetime

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Timberati

It was the chance of a lifetime: going into the backcountry to search for section corners and quarter-section corners set by surveyors one-hundred and one years before. The fly-in-the-ointment was that the surveyors probably had done their work while perched … Continue reading →

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