Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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Flew by Mt. Denali, silhouetted on a rather sunset like skyline, though the sun did set, it never really got dark. Six hour flight to Anchorage. Then to San Francisco (about 8.30 a.m, local time), then to Denver, leaving at 12.00, and not really home till 7.00 p.m., living the same day twice, crossing the date line, and arriving more or less the time I took off from Khabarovsk! Bibliography: Russian Conservation News is published in English, quarterly, as a joint Russian-American effort of the Center for Russian Nature Conservation (USA), the Pocono Environmental Education Center (USA), and the Biodiversity Conservation Center (Russia). Address: Russian Conservation News, c/o Pocono Environmental Education Center, RR 2 Box 1010, Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328-9614. 717/828-2319. Fax: 717/828-9695. John Massey Stewart, The Nature of Russia. Davydova, M., and V. Koshevoi, Nature Reserves of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989 (in English). Taiga News, Contact: Pacific Environment and Resources Center, Fort Cronkhite, Building 1055, Sausalito, CA 94965. Phone 415/332-8200 Fax 415/332-8167. E-mail: perc@igc.apc.org Azulay, Erik, and Allegra Harris Asulay, The Russian Far East (New York: Hippocrene Books, 171 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, 1995. Covers the east, but not the west side of Lake Baikal. Malyschev, L. I. and G. A . Peschkova, Flora of Central Siberia, 2 volumes, 1972. Novosibirsk. (in Russian) Red Data Book, 1988. Some 500 species in all of Russia. The Red Data book is now being revised. Some 130 of these species are in the Irkutsk area. Elena has an article in it on ferns. Telyat'ev, Victor, Useful Plants of Central Siberia. published in Irkusk. A popular manual, has been printed in 200,000 copies, and is hard to get. Bett, Dan, "The World's Great Lake," National Geographic, June 1992, pp. 2-39. Hayes, Jr., Otis E., Home from Siberia. Texas A&M Press, 1990. He traveled the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Khabarovsk about 1987 in the course of a book about American airmen whose aircraft crashed in eastern Siberia and whom the Soviets moved westward across Siberia via the railroad. He wrote me after the Coloradoan article. Route 1, Box 464, Pierce City, MO 65723. end of Siberia trip
July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through Friday. Rawah Wilderness backpacking alone, mostly to see that I was in shape for the Yellowstone trip forthcoming. On the Rawah Trail at Rawah Guest Ranch by 9.30. Steady climb and got into Lake # 1 about 3.30. Spotted fawn seen nicely on the way up. Plenty of snow packs still left, and, although I had thought I might go on up to McIntrye, I decided against it and pitched camp at Lake # 1, actually about a quarter mile back. Plenty of mosquitoes, which, generally, were the bane of the trip. Warm night, good weather. I was here first in July 1970 (27 years ago!), again in August 1988, with Giles. Thursday, I did the circuit, back down to the Camp Lake trail, then up to Sandbar Lakes, Lower an Upper, then to Rainbow Lake, then back out to the main Rawah Trail, to Lake # 3, which is above timberline, then back down past Lakes 2 to Lake 1. Wilson's warbler, probably, maybe an immature MacGillivray's. Lunched back at camp, taking my food out to a more windy spot to avoid mosquitoes and to get a view. In the afternoon, I walked around to McIntryre Lake and found the spot where Giles and I camped there in 1988. It is on the north side, a flat place in some trees up a ways from the lake. White crowned sparrow, and the usual birds. Trail crew came by; the chief has been here six summers. Snow is usually gone by July 4, and this is the latest he has seen it. Mosquitoes are the worst he has seen. He also fussed at me for not being 200 feet from the trail, since the Link Trail ran not so far behind my camp, which I hadn't even seen that the trail was there when I pitched camp, nor had I seen any recent footprints on it when I discovered it the next day. Friday, hiked out, not too fast, to avoid damage to my toes. Left about 8.00 a.m. and out at 1.40 p.m. Nice doe on the trail on the way down. About 20 miles of hiking. Sore knee, which I nursed along during the Montana trip, and for several months afterward. Yellowstone and Scapegoat Wilderness July-August 1997 July 26, Saturday. With Bill Forbes, drive to DuBois, Wyoming. Lunched at Split Rock, which recalls the Pony Express and Buffalo Bill's riding some three hundred miles on twenty different horses over some twenty hours, averaging fourteen miles per hour. In DuBois, we drove up to an overlook over the Wind River Mountains. Also visited the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Foundation; there is a population of sheep here, more easily seen in winter. July 27, Sunday. Drove into Grand Teton National Park, then Yellowstone Park. Elk seen in opening by the roadside. Moose killed on road. Stopped briefly at the Visitor Center in the Tetons. Moose seen in willows. Continued into Yellowstone. There was a glimpse of a grizzly, south of Fishing Bridge, the same area where I had seen one in May-June. There were perhaps a hundred bison crossing the river in Hayden Valley, in groups of twenty or so.
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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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59 We were visited that evening by
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61 the township with an enrollment
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63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
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67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
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71 on the limousine down. December
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73 birds than we thought we might r
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lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Page 138 and 139: much better in the lower, protected
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Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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Page 159 and 160: City tour on a nice day. Population
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Page 186 and 187: Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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