Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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46 out to the road now and again. The first lioness left, not going far away, and the two other lionesses by turns came in to eat, then the hyenas, and lastly some hyena pups. We watched all this perhaps an hour. Here were the "eternal enemies" all together. Reached Afsaal, a campground. The meaning is "saddle-off", a resting place originally for draft animals. We ate early lunch here. Squirrels about the campground. Then we took a dirt road toward Pretoriuskop. Rhino middens in the middle of the road. wildebeest, 5-6 yellowbilled hornbill, the common one here. Diagnostic yellow bill little bee-eater 2 elephants (pix) 3 kudu Reached Pretoriuskop, a nicely developed campsite. African flame tree, orange-red flowers at top zebra 2 waterbuck, at Shitlhave Dam, out in the open sable - nicely seen here for the first time. A dark antelope, black with long horns. "sable" means "black," a term especially used as a heraldic color. fish eagle - at Verwoerd Dam red hornbill greater blue-eared starling 50-75 impala 12-14 5 kudu water buck - all coming to drink at the upper end of the pond Continuing, 12 impala red-breasted korhan squirrel At the waterhole on Nwatsuthake: 6 wildebeest 4-5 zebra 2 warthogs, one on its knees grubbing 12 impala 4 giraffe jackal - running near the giraffes Reached the tar road, at junction 1 km. from wild dog den. Drove by the wild dog den 2-3 pups lying in the shade, but no adults were seen this time. Continued, returning to Skukuza for my trail. monkeys impala.
47 At Skukuza, I separated from Johan and Jane to go on the Metsimetsi Trail, with Cleve Cheney (P. Bag X402, Skukuza 1350, South Africa). He is taking a correspondence wilderness management course from Colorado State University, one which had some articles I wrote in the readings (and one I consulted some with George Wallace and others to set up). The course is being moved to the University of Montana, however. Mike Landman, whom I had met earlier in 1990 was the director of trails until recently, when he took a job still with the parks board in tourism promotion. Cleve is now the acting director of trails, and he expects to be named the permanent director, though there are many slips nowadays with the new politics. Trails are 8 people, and go out twice a week in most camps. They take 7,000 people a year on trails, 65% of them are repeaters. The men/women ratio is 50-50. 92% of them are South Africans, only 8% are internationals, presumably because there is such a long wait to get on them. The black guide (2nd gun) is Fernando. He speaks Portuguese, and a little English. Trail participants here go out in a rather fancy bakkie, outfitted with seats in the back and a canvas top. I rode up front with Cleve. This is called a "trail," and you have to book a year and a half in advance to get one. But it is not a backpacking trail; you go to a camp with a fence around it, stay there; there is a cook and food is provided, as is bedding. You go out each day and hike about, and return. Other people on the trail: An Afrikaans family of four: Dennes and Lorraine Rousseau, and their sons Jacques, finishing grade 11 and Rikus, finishing grade 6. From Schoemanville, near Pretoria. Philip R. Sagar and wife, Diz. Financial Director, Streetbeat Shoes, 17 Doris Street, Berea 2198. P. O. Box 603, Northlands, 2116. Other addresses, on the photos he sent: Box 354, Bruma 2026. Inside address: 31 Turnstone Street, Dewetshof, Tvl. 2198. Phone home: 011 622-7271; work: 011 484-3618. Fax 011 484-1191. They have a son in the U.S., in Florida in school and will come to the U.S. next year. Richard Tucker, electrical engineer originally, though now he manages various projects. Wife: Mary Tucker, a bookkeeper. From Edenvale, near Johannesburg. Both men were rather good with birds. All four had been on trails before and were well travelled in South Africa. Notes from Cleve Cheney en route to camp. Buffalo are very overrated; old bulls are more trouble than herds. There are 1400 white rhino in the park, 140 black rhino, which are solitary and far slower breeders. Once Kruger had no rhinos at all, they were all shot out by perhaps 1910. The baboons here are chacma baboons, very similar to the olive baboons in East Africa. The duikers here are grey duikers usually, red duiker are in riverine habitat. There is a large elephant typically coming to drink water near camp, with a broken tusk. Metsimetsi, the name of the camp, means "water, water."
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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,
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
Page 9 and 10: 7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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Page 26 and 27: 21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
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Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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Page 57: 45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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Page 77 and 78: 63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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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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