This was on the front page of the paper here today. Apparently this black bear got herself stuck in a keeper pothole over the weekend, with no way out until some hikers found her and threw some logs down in for a ladder.
Wow, what a hiking discovery! Sorry about my off handed Forest Service comment on my blog. The Forest Service property near our cabin is no where near your jurisdiction or I'm sure it would be better taken care of. It is located up Huntington Canyon near Millars Flat. The picture was taken at Potters Pond, but the dead/diseased trees are like that everywhere up there. I am not particularly disturbed by dead trees until they start to outnumber the living ones and as you said, there is nothing natural about the current infestation of bettle kill. As I commented, my Dad worked for the Forest Service most of his life and even in his eyes, that many diseased and dead trees is just poor management. Thanks for the comment. By the way, dispite our differences, Dave and I think you guys are pretty great people.
"When I hear the stock market has fallen, I say, "Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!" I think an economy should be based on thrift, on taking care of things, not on theft, usury, seduction, waste, and ruin. My purpose is a language that can make us whole, Though mortal, ignorant, and small. The world is whole beyond human knowing."
-Wendell Berry, agrarian philosopher
"Where can one find a healthier and purer delight than when on a brilliant winter day one binds one's ski to ones feet and takes one's way out into the forest?... Civilization is, as it were, washed clean from the mind and left far behind with the city atmosphere and city life; one's whole being is, so to say, wrapped in one's ski and surrounding nature"
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwewgian adventurer and Ski Hero, first to cross Greenland on skis.
"Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"
Aldo Leopold
"And they did preserve the land south as a wilderness, to get game.."
Book of Mormon, Ether 10:21
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The wind will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. -- John Muir
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Wow, what a hiking discovery! Sorry about my off handed Forest Service comment on my blog. The Forest Service property near our cabin is no where near your jurisdiction or I'm sure it would be better taken care of. It is located up Huntington Canyon near Millars Flat. The picture was taken at Potters Pond, but the dead/diseased trees are like that everywhere up there. I am not particularly disturbed by dead trees until they start to outnumber the living ones and as you said, there is nothing natural about the current infestation of bettle kill. As I commented, my Dad worked for the Forest Service most of his life and even in his eyes, that many diseased and dead trees is just poor management. Thanks for the comment. By the way, dispite our differences, Dave and I think you guys are pretty great people.
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