Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson, John Chalmers, from the University of Adelaide, were at the lecture and stayed to talk. He incorporates some environmental ethics into a moral philosophy course. Evening. pizza at Pen Horner's home. On the Adelaide trip, I probably should have gone to Kangaroo Island, but did not know this in time to arrange it. The kangaroos there are a subspecies of the Western Gray. One reason for the wildlife there is that there are no foxes, rabbits, cats, and other European animals, also it is relatively free of weeds. August 10, Saturday. left hotel 10.00 p.m. With Lawrence Johnson, we drove down the coast to Aboriginal Spring site. The folk tale is that a boy killed an emu and died under a curse. His maternal uncle carried his body to Kangaroos Island, shedding tears when he stopped to rest. Hence the springs. Then, we went on further south to a geological site. Glacial striations and the rock column. Quite a contrast of the folklore and the science. Flight Adelaide to Perth at 1.40 p.m. Adelaide to Perth by road is 2,700 km, over the Nullarbor Plain. Null-arbor is bad Latin for no-trees. The Nullarbor Plain road, a transcontinental highway, was finally surfaced only in 1976. It is the only transcontinental highway, east to west, in Australia. We flew over the Great Australian Bight, a cloudless day. Then we flew over land, looking like a scrub forest, and many hundreds of dried salt lakes. Few signs of human habitations, though there were occasional roads. Flight path is over Cape Arid National Park. Route 1 runs around the perimeter of the nation, supposedly. Western Australia is 1 million square miles, four times the size of Texas. It has 8,000 miles of coastline. The nearest big city to Perth is Adelaide, 1,700 miles away. Met by Andrew Brennan. Dinner with Felicity Haynes, Dean of Education, Jeff Malpas, Murdoch University, and his wife, a librarian, and Victoria Morgan, a student of Felicity Haynes. August 11, Saturday. Drove to Darling Range. To Jarrahdale, then to Sullivan's Rock. Hiked there for lunch under pine trees. Drosera erythrorhiza. Red ink sundew. In bloom. Also one is a vine, Drosera spp., with small cup-shaped leaves. Drove to Mt. Dale, and walked up firetower. Lots of grass trees in the forests. Especially lovely in the evening sun. Some lovely wattles. Drive to John Forest National park and looked about dusk for kangaroos. None seen. One wallaby glimpsed alongside the road in the dark, on return. Spotted turtle-dove. Galahs. Australian ringneck parrot = Port Lincoln parrot. pied cormorant. Long-tailed black-cockatoo, seen at twilight.
quongan (pronounced kwong gan) - name for the coastal, sand plain vegetation. jarrah forest - the dominant Eucalyptus is jarrah. E. marginata. karri forest (E. diversicolor) is further south. Saw an emu farm. 1080 is a natural toxin in Australian eucalypts, and it doesn't bother marsupials. Cinnamon fungus - causes dieback in Eucalyptus. Bottle brush. Kookaburra heard calling. roobar. A bar up front on the car or truck to hit kangaroos bullbar. The Northern Territory is not a state but a territory. August 12, Monday. Drive north to New Norica (norr-ree-kuh) and a Benedictine Monastery there. Drove through Muchea, Gin Gin, Mogumber, and then to New Norica. camels in fields en route. camelier, a person who handles camels, often Afghan. rain showers The pastures ("paddocks") are quite green now, though they become brown later in the year and are brown most of the year. soup and a roll in a roadhouse. Clearing and better weather. Drove to Moora and on to the Pinnacles, in Namburg National Park. Echidna. Seen crossing the road, and we went up on the hillside and watched it quite a while. It flattens down and balls up and presents a bundle of spines. "Echidna" = "like a hedgehog." On to the Pinnacles. These are limestone pillars, somewhat like rough gravestones. Quite spectacular and especially nice in the evening sun, interesting light and shadows. On way back, we tried to see the stromatolites, but didn't really know what we were looking for. Stromatolites are layered rocks formed by fossilization from huge bacterial colonies, which lived in layers, the top layer phototrophic and the lower layers feeding off their energy. They are known in various fossil deposits, but active colonies are rare. There are good examples in Baha California. Kangaroo - seen on road in car lights. Rain, lightning. Back about 10.00 p.m. and got pizza. Pilbara (pronounced, pill buh ruh). The region to the north is the richest source of iron ore in the world. August 13, Tuesday. Walked the dog.
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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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55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
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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 120 and 121: it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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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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