Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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floods and drought, much compacted. Half of Australian farmers lose money in any given year. Back in Melbourne about 4.00. Dinner with La Trobe University Philosophy faculty. Col's Café. Freya Mathews Alec Hyslop, from Edinburgh originally Robert Young, rough face Aaran Gare Ross Phillips, sat beside Jane student and tutor from University of Melbourne, using "Values in Nature" and "Disvalues in Nature." July 30, Tuesday. Spent day in the stores in Melbourne. Ate kangaroo pie for supper. July 31, Wednesday. Lecture at La Trobe University. 11.00 - 1.00. Robert Young, chair of dept. Freya Mathews Ross Phillips Alec Hyslop John Fox, full beard, philosophy of science, sat opposite me at lunch John Bigelow, from Monash University, on leave at La Trobe. I conversed with him quite a bit. Freya Mathews and Janna Thompson both teach environmental ethics. Matthews teaches ecology and feminism. She only works half a year by choice. Hayden Ramsay, a recent Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, knows Cheryl Foster. Arran Gare also came Purusottoma Bilimoria, from Deakin University, came. I met him in Boston. August 1, Thursday. Flight to Hobart. Met by Kate Crowley and baby girl, Alouisa. She teaches a class in Environmental Politics. Went to B&B and information center. Crowley is pronounced kraugh, rhymes plow, ley. The Olympics were going on in Atlanta, Georgia, and she had a cousin who was making national news winning her races. August 2, Friday. 11.00 met Wawrick Fox and drove up Nelson Mountains. 1.00 lecture at University of Tasmania. Pete Hay, Centre for Environmental Studies. He teaches a class, Environmental Values" in the Centre for Environmental Studies. 4.00 lecture, Nature and Culture, with panel. Panelists: Pete Hay, Centre for Environmental Studies Kate Crowley Jerry de Gryse, landscape architect, her husband, from Detroit
David Stephenson, photographer and arts. Dinner in Japanese restaurant. At supper: Paulus Berensohn, crafts, American, from Penland School of Crafts, near Roan Mountain, NC, Spruce Pine, Bakersville, NC area. Peter Adamas, American, now Australian. Makes furniture. Both of them were sort of deep ecologists. Echidnas are active by day and Pete Hay sees them off and on. Platypus he never sees. Tasmanian devils are mostly around campgrounds at night. They are black and their eyes don't reflect light, and they are hard to see at night. August 3, Saturday. Got rental car, a rainy morning. Walked to the car rental at a gas station in the rain. Drove toward Port Arthur. Eaglehawk Neck. Tessalated Pavement, rocks with a squarish grid, look a bit as though they had been laid by a mason, at the sea's edge. Blowhole. Tasman Arch. Devil's Kitchen, all interesting coastal erosion formations. Lunch at Tasmanian Devil Park. Toured the Park. Tasmanian Devils. Bennett's Wallabies (=Red Necked Wallaby) Eastern Quoll Toured Port Arthur Convict ruins. Masked lapwings on lawn. Returned to Fulham Cottages B&B, a "property" or "paddocks" with 6,500 sheep! Night ride, with John Hamilton, director of the Tasmanian Devil Park. He has tried feeding them to show them to tourists at night, but failed. brush tailed possum rabbit 2 pademelons rabbit 7 pademelons 2 Bennett's wallabies 3 pademelons 3 Bennett's wallabies 2 pademelons more pademelons 2 possums Bennett's wallaby 4 possums 5 possums 2 Bennett's wallabies 3 pademelons 3 possums 1 hare August 4, Sunday. Up at 6.00 a.m. and do-it-yourself breakfast in the cottage. Fine, cool day, at the start (!), though
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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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But it was getting dark and we didn
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43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
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45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
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47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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stand your ground. Be bold and nois
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51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
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Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
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Page 101 and 102: Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
Page 111 and 112: Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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Page 120 and 121: it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
Page 122 and 123: Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
Page 126 and 127: Then to Murdoch University, lecture
Page 130 and 131: This cave is the pouch of the femal
Page 132 and 133: Huge streams pour off the rock in a
Page 134 and 135: ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Page 138 and 139: much better in the lower, protected
Page 140 and 141: To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
Page 144 and 145: crows are unusual inside Yellowston
Page 146 and 147: as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
Page 148 and 149: I went up on a higher hill to try t
Page 150 and 151: Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
Page 152 and 153: Russia has an 80-year old system of
Page 154 and 155: In the dining car, there never seem
Page 157 and 158: Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
Page 159 and 160: City tour on a nice day. Population
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Page 163 and 164: Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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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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