Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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60 greater kestrel We stopped in the Thomas Baines Nature Reserve. They have 10 buffalo here, 5 white rhino and one leopard, several kinds of antelope. But the main purpose of the reserve is to save samples of the original vegetation in the area. Our Grahamstown hosts put us up in a bed and breakfast, an elegant old home, but it was always cold. We had dinner that evening with Pat Irwin in his home, and others in the education department, especially George and Gwenda Euvrard (who was later to take us to Addo Elephant Park), also Hennie and Caroline van der Meselt. Pat Irwin, Department of Education, Rhodes University, P. O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. July 27. Thursday. Lecture in the morning There was a striking monkey puzzle tree in the campus lawn. Monkeys climb out on long limbs to get the fruit and the limbs bend down and the monkeys get puzzled. Lunch with Geoff G. Antrobus, economics and dean of social science, and another economist and a graduate student. Lecture in the afternoon Trip to Thomas Barnes Nature Reserve, with Derek van Eeden, the manager of the reserve. He had heard me speak at Durban. mountain tortoise (= leopard tortoise) 6-8 red hartebeest 1 wildebeest We went to see one million dollars worth of cycads that had been essentially stolen, though taken with some kind of forged permit in one of the former homelands, and recaptured and planted here. We had dinner with Felicity Edwards, systematic theology, and Margaret Donaldson, church history. Edwards did a B.D. at the University of Edinburgh under Tom Torrance (my advisor). July 28, Friday. Morning lecture I had a brief visit to School of Ichythology, courtesy of Ofer Gon, fisheries biologist who had heard my talks. The School was founded by a fisheries biologist who was influential in the school here. He discovered the coelacanths, and one is prominently displayed in the hall, pickled. Jane went with Anne Irwin to visit two preprimary schools for blacks - one next to finger section of
61 the township with an enrollment of 65 children. The other was nearer in town in a former Methodist sanctuary; 105 children enrolled and doing very well in classes conducted in three languages - Afrikaans, English, Xhosa. Lunch with Brian Peckham, lecturer in law, who was in wheel chair, teaches environmental law. Also Ivan Schaffer, dean of the law school. Afternoon lecture Dinner with philosophy department: Ian MacDonald, wife Gus (Augusta), has a M.A. from Kansas, no Ph.D., chair of the dept. Marius Vermaak, studied and taught at Stellenbosch, younger. Frances Williamson, with beard, interested in sociobiology. Gary ? Newer philosopher, there on contract, only been there a week. lucerne, or lucern = alfalfa (Medicago sativa), a legume. July 29, Saturday. We went to a beadwork festival at Albany Cultural Museum. African dancers and an African choir. Then back to the bed and breakfast, and off at 12.00 for Addo Elephant Park. Reached the park and tried to get lunch there, eventually to wait for a lunch that took too long coming. Then we drove through the park, but in some haste. One elephant at waterhole. Another elephant in distance, later seen close up. A third elephant on skyline, nice tusks. red hartebeest, group of 6-8 ostriches - perhaps three dozen seen 12-15 red hartebeest Then a group of 19 elephants crossing a field, including several quite small ones. Nice scene. While we were watching this another elephant came up the road from behind us, and kept coming closer. We moved forward, only eventually to stop and have it walk past us in the bush. Return drive, to leave the park: 12-15 eland in distance Drive to Port Elizabeth, and flight to Cape Town at 5.55 p.m. dolosse - a big stone, anchor like fabrication, which they pile up to make breakwaters. Arriving Cape Town, we were met by Johan Hattingh, and drove to Stellenbosch, and got set up in the apartment. July 30. Sunday. Went to Presbyterian/Congregationalist United Church.
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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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Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
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Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Page 122 and 123: 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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