This is from a trip Mary and I took to Yosemite. We camped in Little Yosemite Valley in the backcountry. We had one of the park’s bear resistant food containers but the bear decided that dropping by unannounced for dessert was just easier for all parties involved. Naturally, when we reported the bear to theContinue reading “Postcard from Yosemite”
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Weekend Postcard from Yosemite
This is from a trip Mary and I took to Yosemite. We camped in Little Yosemite Valley in the backcountry. We had one of the park’s bear resistant food containers but the bear decided that dropping by unannounced for dessert was just easier for all parties involved. Naturally, when we reported the bear to theContinue reading “Weekend Postcard from Yosemite”
What’s wrong with this picture?
From the Sierra Club: Download the Sierra Club Eco Heroes application and be entered in our drawing to win five nights at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows with roundtrip airfare for two and a full-day tour of Volcanoes National Park with Hawaii Forest and Trail. Tell me, do you find this as ironicContinue reading “What’s wrong with this picture?”
What's wrong with this picture?
From the Sierra Club: Download the Sierra Club Eco Heroes application and be entered in our drawing to win five nights at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows with roundtrip airfare for two and a full-day tour of Volcanoes National Park with Hawaii Forest and Trail. Tell me, do you find this as ironicContinue reading “What's wrong with this picture?”
Weekend postcard from Clear Lake
These are American white pelicans (Pelacanus erythrorhynchos) hanging out here on our end of Clear Lake. When they show up it’s always a treat for us. They motor along the surface serenely. Below the surface they must be paddling like mad. I’m sure there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
A weekend postcard from Clear Lake
These are American white pelicans (Pelacanus erythrorhynchos) hanging out here on our end of Clear Lake. When they show up it’s always a treat for us. They motor along the surface serenely. Below the surface they must be paddling like mad. I’m sure there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
Postcard from Lake County – Mt. Konocti
This is Mount Konocti in the morning last week after a cold front blew through. ============================== Here’s an update from our National Weather Service for today. Looks like we’ll get more frosting on Mount Konocti, elev. 4305 ft (1312.2 m): THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING ABOVE 2000 FEETContinue reading “Postcard from Lake County – Mt. Konocti”
Weekend Postcard from Lake County – Mt. Konocti
This is Mount Konocti in the morning last week after a cold front blew through. ============================== Here’s an update from our National Weather Service for today. Looks like we’ll get more frosting on Mount Konocti, elev. 4305 ft (1312.2 m): THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING ABOVE 2000 FEETContinue reading “Weekend Postcard from Lake County – Mt. Konocti”
Have one-half of the world’s forests been converted to non-forest use?
I posted recently “You’re pulling my Yang. Ten reasons to use dead tree stuff,” the Yang being half of the Taoist Yin-Yang concept of male/female, light/dark/ ebb/flow, action/reaction. The post’s message was that we can’t look at only one side of an issue as a Yahoo Green blog had done (10 big reasons to stopContinue reading “Have one-half of the world’s forests been converted to non-forest use?”
You’re pulling my Yang. Ten dead-on reasons for using dead tree stuff.
Some anti-logging activists have latched onto a fact like mistletoe on a branch; it looks green but it’s hurting the trees rather than helping. The fact: Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air, and via photosynthesis combine the CO2 with hydrogen to make wood, and expel oxygen. This process pulls CO2 , a greenhouse gas,Continue reading “You’re pulling my Yang. Ten dead-on reasons for using dead tree stuff.”
Nullius in Verba 