Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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44 Also attending the seminar: Petri Viljoek. He monitors vegetation, and knows Gene Decker. Carl Lourens, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church here. There is an Interdenominational Church that meets in the same building at a different time on Sunday. Johan left Cleve Cheney with three or four of my articles, including the Callicott debate on wilderness, Value in Nature, and Feeding People vs. Saving Nature, also some ISEE material. He gave a summary of human-scale development. I discovered that Philosophy Gone Wild and Environmental Ethics were in the library, already autographed and donated by someone to them. I autographed them again, at their request. Pretoria Technikon, a school that has two academic years and one year in the field, a technical college, and then gives a "diploma" not a degree. But this is changing and the technikons will be giving a B. Tech degree, perhaps with three years and one year in the field. Technikon South Africa. Lunch, then afternoon game drive. monkeys impala crocodile (pix) impala lilac-breasted roller greenbacked heron tawny eagle, seen at length at close range monkeys impala, 40-50 of them baboons, pix with young 7 elephants giraffes brown-headed kingfisher glossy starlings, many at a picnic area, nicely developed, where we stopped for a rest stop. fork-tailed drongo, all black with forked tail, a perching bird grey lourie elephant, seen in distance hippos, 5 lying out of water with birds on them hippos, 3 in the water 1 giraffe martial eagle, nicely seen buffalo, herd of 150 of them (pix) at some distance away. At a lake, the Lower Sabie Dam site, as far down as we got. We were headed toward Lower Sabie, but were running out of time, and stayed here rather than going into town. hammerkop fish eagle saddle-billed stork
45 little egret giant kingfisher pied kingfisher grey heron African jacana darter (anhinga) wooly-necked stork Egyptian goose 5 hippos African spoonbill reed cormorant. Driving back, there was an elephant in the road, again! But this time it backed away without confrontation. helmeted guinea fowl 5-6 buffalo, roadside giraffe, in road 2 giraffes 2 dozen guinea fowl, as we neared the Huhla camp. There were hyenas calling in the night, close by. hooo-up, hooo-up call. ("Calls of the Bushveld" tape) Again, hyenas in the night, further off. The leopard call is said to be like sawing wood. (It is on the "Calls of the Bushveld" tape, side 2). July 16, Sunday. We took off for an all-day game drive, prior to my going out on the trail that evening. duiker on way out crocodile 200 helmeted guineas, all along road We headed toward Pretoriuskop. rode up Granokop 40-50 impala crowned eagle Natal francolin 150 impala long-tailed shrike Swainson's francolin, with red face Crested francolin, striped head. Both kinds were in the same flock. kudu - male and female 5 giraffe fork-tailed drongo We then came upon a bloody spot in the road, with three hyenas about (took various pix), and pulled forward a bit to see three lionesses, one eating at an kill, an impala, in the bush 20 meters away, and growling when the other two came near, and the hyenas waiting still further out, coming
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 5 and 6: "Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
Page 9 and 10: 7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
Page 11 and 12: 9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
Page 13 and 14: 11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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Page 21 and 22: 17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
Page 24 and 25: 19 somewhat better on the return tr
Page 26 and 27: 21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
Page 30 and 31: 25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
Page 32 and 33: 27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
Page 34 and 35: 29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
Page 41 and 42: 33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
Page 49: But it was getting dark and we didn
Page 54: 43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
Page 65: 53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
Page 69 and 70: 55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
Page 71 and 72: 57 distance away to the four winds.
Page 73 and 74: 59 We were visited that evening by
Page 75 and 76: 61 the township with an enrollment
Page 77 and 78: 63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
Page 79 and 80: 65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
Page 83 and 84: 69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
Page 85 and 86: 71 on the limousine down. December
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
Page 91 and 92: water supplies are put in a couple
Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
Page 95 and 96: 4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
Page 97 and 98: Two coyotes came down the road in f
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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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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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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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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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