Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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Sweden, Denmark, Romania April 12-May 6, 1996. Sweden, Oxford, Denmark, Romania trip. Bits of encounter with nature here and there; a walk in the woods at Odense with Finn Arler, also a walk in the woods at Aarhus, ending in walk by the sea. Wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa is evidence everywhere; in deciduous woods it could blanket the forest floor, quite spectacular. Lots of beech forests in Denmark. In Romania, a weekend in the Carpathian mountains, lovely scenery, but rather degraded and overused woods. Hosted by Pompiliu Diplan, a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Bucharest, and his wife, and infant child. Nice spring green against the conifers. Some nice flowering trees, looked like pears, maybe some apple. One hedgehog killed roadside. A couple hawks. Tried to see the Danube and get to the Black Sea, to no avail. They kept saying it's not worth going. June 8-18, 1996. Lusto Finland and Estonia. Aesthetics of Forests conference at Lusto, with a Finnish Forest Museum, near Punkaharju, on an esker with lakes all around. Some hike in the woods in the course of the conference, but there was not as much nature interpretation as on the 1994 trip. Lovely woods. June 15-17, 1996. Weekend in Estonia. Stayed in Tallin but on Sunday we were taken out in the country and I got a couple strolls in the woods. Many familiar genera, though I often didn't know the species and some things I didn't know at all. Generally flat country with fewer lakes than Finland, and still lots of forests across the countryside.
Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996 July 1, 1995. Left Denver 5.45 p.m. Left Los Angeles 10.40 p.m. July 2. Skipped it! Crossed the international dateline. July 3. Arrived Sydney 6.30 a.m. This is Kingsford Smith Airport. He was the first man to fly the Pacific Ocean. QUANTAS. The name comes from Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service. Ansett airlines carries the name of its founder. Bob? Ansett. Got rental car, drove to motel. Drove to downtown Sydney. Parked and walked to American Express to cash checks. Walked through downtown Sydney shopping area. Moved car to parking lot, and walked to the Rocks, lunched at MacDonalds, walked to harbor and opera house. Drove to motel. The motel is across the street from an edge of the University of New South Wales. The University of Sydney is the old "sandstone" university with a full set of facilities. Charles Birch is there in biology, now retired. The University of New South Wales is a post World War II university, though it is now of considerable size, approaching that of the University of Sydney. Another University here is Macquarie University. The University of Sydney had for thirty years two different philosophy departments, one in the "analytic" tradition, one in "continental" philosophy, which also meant some Marxist strains. Those two departments are now united, though the "streams" are still there. July 4. Thursday. Breakfast at MacDonalds, drove to Geminini Lodge to make reservations for return trip. Groceries at IGA, and drove to Blue Mountains. Stopped at Glenbrook for information. Found B&B at Wentworth Falls. Drove to the Wentworth Falls Picnic Area, lunched there with Jane overheating in the car. Drove the Cliff Road Drive. Reached Echo Point, and overlook of the Three Sisters. Galahs at the feeders outside gift shop here. Tree ferns, Cyanthea, Rough Tree fern. Drove to Govett's Leap and overlook of Bridal Veil Falls. Australian magpie. Pied Currawong. July 5, Friday. I took the Darwin walk alone. Darwin was here and took this or a similar walk in the
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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15 francolins egret, unidentified e
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17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
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19 somewhat better on the return tr
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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
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Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
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27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
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29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
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31 We drove back around in the lake
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33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
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35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
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37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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