Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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Then to Murdoch University, lecture at 12.30. Lunch with Jeff Malpas, from New Zealand. He was for a time at University of New England. Arnold Thompson, University of Manchester, is now here. Patsy Hallen, an American, is here, but in the Science and Technology Program. She has managed to arrange a position in ecofeminism every other year. It has been filled by Carolyn Merchant, then Karen Warren, and will be filled next by Val Plumwood, and Vandana Shiva. Hallen supervised the dissertation of Wawrick Fox. She works only half a year and is in the bush or whatever the second half. She teaches one class in environmental ethics, another in ecofeminism. There are only four vet schools in Australia: Murdoch, Adelaide University, one in Melbourne, one in Sydney. There is a woman on the animal ethics committee at the University of Western Australia who thinks highly of Bernie Rollin. After lunch, we walked on a boardwalk at a pond. Waterfowl. egrets, cormorants. Two rabbits on the Murdoch University campus. Tour of Freemantle - a Victorian town. Back at dusk. This area is called Sunset Coast. lorikeets in the trees along the coast at sunset. The tropical sun can set with a flash of green just at the setting. Green flash. Rottnest Island, a "nest of rats," in Dutch, or, more accurately, quokkas, a small marsupial. Kentucky fried chicken. Ken Johnson, The Ausmap Atlas of Australia. Oakleigh, Victoria: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-521-42122-5 Australian bushfires are some of the worst in the world, as a threat to settled areas. The danger is greatest after vegetation has flourished and then fried out. They create their own localized fire storms. Good map of fire frequency (p. 77). The vastest part of the continent burns less often than once every twenty years. Drought is common. At any time some part of the continent is experiencing drought. There were great droughts at the turn of the century, the 1940's, and in 1982-83. Floods are common, owing to the extreme variability of the climate. The intense high rainfall floods the streams. Wetter or drier periods are common. Development spreads into flood prone areas, shifts the runoff patterns and makes the floods worse. Good rainfall map, p. 73. Low rainfall compared with other continents, and more variable than on other continents. Good climate maps, p. 71. Steve Parish, Big Picture Book of Australian Wildlife. Fortitude Valley, Queensland. Steve Parish Publishing Pty, Ltd. ISBN 1 875932 038. Good pictures of echidna, platypus. Discover Australia. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1991, 1994. ISBN 0 86438 135 2. Later got it ILL at CSU, excellent for a survey of the types of landscapes.
August 14, Wednesday. Rode to Freemantle on the train. Lovely Norfolk Island Pines in a town square on the ocean. Toured Capt. James Cook's "Endeavour", 1768-1771, on board were Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander as naturalists. Lecture at the University of Western Australia. Dinner with Barry Meund, native Australian, philosophy of science. Michael Levine, beard, American. Spent some time at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and had many temporary jobs. Has a book on Pantheism, with a chapter on whether city people are easily pantheist. He is not himself a pantheist. Stewart Candlish, from the U.K. Mauro Grün, graduate student from Brazil, Porto Alegre, met me there. August 15, Thursday. Left 5.15 a.m. for a 6.20 a.m. flight to Ayers Rock (Uluru). More clouds across the continent than I might have expected. 10.30 a.m. to 2.00. Set up in hotels, lunch, shopping, visitor center. The village is called Yulara. Drive to Uluru and cultural center. Dingo seen at Mala Walk trailhead, got good pictures. He was looking around for some food. Drove around Uluru. The rock is arkose sandstone. Ayers Rock was found in 1873 by the first European to see it, William Gosse, and named for Sir Henry Ayers, an official in South Australia. Uluru, the native name, means "giant pebble." Drove to the Olgas (Kata Tjuta), with lovely clouds and lowering sunlight. Desert oaks. Casuarinas, grow to 20 meters, a height unmatched by any other tree in the world in comparable arid conditions (Australia's Native Trees, p. 11). They were quite lovely on this drive. On return, a dingo seen about halfway back, Nicely seen. Drove to sunset viewing area, and saw another dingo there. Lovely sunset colors on the rock, the only really good sunset lighting effects we saw while there. Afterward, we drove around Uluru again at dusk. Another dingo (the fourth one!), seen on the way back, seen in car headlights. Anangu - name for the local aboriginal people. Uluru is a sacred site and the aboriginals prefer that you do not climb it, but give permission anyway. The signs here says that the aboriginals regret that you cover up the tracks left by Mala men. Their women weren't supposed to climb it either. Quoted from sign: Mala men travel to the top of Uluru. People who do "the climb" are walking over the tracks of the Mala. Anganga would prefer you not to climb Uluru. Quoted from Mala Puta, nearby:
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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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57 distance away to the four winds.
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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 122 and 123: Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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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
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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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